rough-hewn
Example Sentences
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In places, if you stab at the grass with the heel of your boot, you quickly reach the racing surface: in the early days dirt and later a rough hewn combination of gravel and oil.
From Washington Times • May 31, 2016
Many cemeteries started as family burial grounds, she said, on farmlands with rough, hewn stones for markers.
From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2014
They were rough hewn, and given light he reckoned he could go down by 'em with a bit of luck and the Lord to guide his feet.
From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden
The bunk, with its sheepskins, and a table made of a rough hewn plank on three poles set in the floor, were the only furniture.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
One would think that such a rough hewn and slovenly mortal as we have been describing would have had little regard for any delicacies in the eating way.
