roughhewn

Example Sentences

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The primary exception is a wonderful, lumpy dome in roughhewn cast bronze, which looks like a small mountain.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022

That’s some of the enjoyably kooky plot in “Missed Connections,” the charming if occasionally roughhewn screwball comedy that Faction of Fools Theatre Company is staging outdoors at the Parks at Walter Reed.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Meanwhile, parking shortages along Edmonds’ bustling Main Street and Fifth Avenue South, and the roughhewn appearance of some of the temporary outdoor dining structures have prompted calls to regulate or remove the streateries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

Intellectuals mocked what they called the “enthusiasm” of self-taught preachers whose pulpit thunder exceeded their formal learning, just as the roughhewn itinerants knew little of Isaac Newton.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw