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hewing

verb as in cut

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Example Sentences

Hewing to principle is difficult, because it makes party whips angry, spoils dinner parties, and ends careers and friendships.

One of the two whom I saw, held a heavy axe over his head, and had taken the bent attitude of a workman hewing wood.

These thousands of slaves who are hewing away the mountains are ludicrous and ridiculous in their brutality and absurdity.

The very day after a king ascended the throne he used to begin hewing out the sepulchre where he should lie.

Here they set to work in earnest; hewing down the trees and clearing the ground for the foundations of the temples.

Abraham helped his father in clearing the land and hewing the trees.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hewing, such as: cleave, fashion, prune, chip, stroke, and chop.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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