HEW in a Sentence
Learn HEW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for HEW, such as:
1. He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.
2. Our swords must hew a way through the enemy.
3. They hew their way through the dense jungle.
4. The Prussian cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, exterminates.
5. Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
2. Our swords must hew a way through the enemy.
3. They hew their way through the dense jungle.
4. The Prussian cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, exterminates.
5. Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
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Meanings and Examples of HEW
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hew
v. strike with an axe; cut down, strike
v. make or shape as with an axe
Classic Sentence:
1 Our swords must hew a way through the enemy.
2 Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
3 At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed off his hand with an axe.
4 The sword of a cuirassier, which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to the song by killing the singer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
5 The Prussian cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, exterminates.
6 He mows down all that meets him, and hews a broad path through their columns with furious sword, as he seeks thee, O Turnus, in thy fresh pride of slaughter.
Example Sentence:
1 They hew their way through the dense jungle.
2 He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.