hew to

phrasal verb

hewed to; hewed to or hewn to; hewing to; hews to

US

: to follow or obey (something)

Everyone must hew to the rules/standards.

He is a politician who has always hewed closely to the party line.

Examples of hew to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then the model with human drivers starts a steady upward climb that continues to hew to the historical record. —Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024

The Democrats who followed Reagan largely hewed to the same pro-business handbook, limiting government interference in the economy. —Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024

But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power. —Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023

Once in office, of course, Trump hewed to the right, losing that moderate advantage. —David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024

But Indonesian elites also believe that upholding these principles makes practical sense; the country’s interests will be best served by autonomy, not by hewing to the inclinations of a more powerful external partner. —Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024

The agreement largely hews to spending caps for defense and domestic programs that Congress set as part of a bill to suspend the debt limit until 2025. —Kevin Freking, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024

Image: OnePlus As far as design, the OnePlus Watch 2 hews to a more classic analog watch look with a circular face. —Victoria Song, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024

Hamas leaders have also so far hewed to maximalist demands from earlier in the war: that Israel’s army fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip and implement a full and final cease-fire — stipulations that Israel has already rejected as nonstarters. —Matt Bradley, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024