How to Use hew in a Sentence

hew

verb

• The walls are built of stones hewn by skilled craftsmen.
• They hewed logs to build a cabin.
• But the press event inevitably hewed back to the film’s origin.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
• Think a front desk hewn from Dionysos marble and sconces in the shape of harpies.
  — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2025
• Though the romcom must hew to a formula, so must the mob movie.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• But a blanket warning hews too close to gossip for my taste.
  — Eric Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2026
• Though the movie hews very close to what happened that day, the timeline is compressed.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Several of the larger trees have been newly hewn to bring in the sun.
  — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
• Each actress is given a role that hews closely to her own persona.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 17 May 2018
• At first glance, all three hewed close to the genre’s long-lasting mainstream conventions.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• The rest of the Orange ballot hews more closely to what voters are used to.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026
• While the limes hew to the green palette, lemons, kumquats, and grapefruits open it up to more vibrant colors.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2017
• Bayona and his team were eager to craft a new tale that hewed as closely as possible to true events.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
• Even the best employees may want—or may need—to hew closely to their job descriptions.
  — Forbes, 18 June 2021
• But planners hew closely to the guidelines for fear of legal trouble.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 June 2021
• And indeed, the language of the bill hews closely to that argument.
  — Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• At the same time, no one is sure how closely Powell will hew to the Yellen model.
  — Martin Crutsinger and Ken Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
• So far, the games slate has hewed closely to the horror content of Blumhouse’s roots.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• Four fresh graves hewn from claylike soil in a historic cemetery where the newly dead are crowding out the old.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The state's new districts hew more compactly to county and town boundaries.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• This was all fine and hewed closely to the education and therapy trends of the day.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2014
• The color palette hewed towards various shades of browns giving the clothes a touch of a retro feel.
  — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The play hewed closely to the original script, with a few splashes of local color.
  — Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
• Biosphere 2's fog desert is the landscape that hews closest to what lies right outside the building.
  — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 7 July 2025
• The Elysium Spa is an actual cave spa hewn from rock.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
• Yoriko toils in anonymity in Nagi as a sculptor of human figures hewn from raw blocks of wood.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
• Five trailheads provide starting points, including one that’s just a short stroll from the falls, a cleft hewed from steep cliffs.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• But the new addition hews closely to the original.
  — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
• The downside is that managers can end up hewing too closely to their indexes and miss the forest for the trees.
  — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
• Yet is that even the responsibility of the filmmaker to hew to the facts?
  — Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019