Used in a Sentence

hewn

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hewn.

Editorial note

Hand carved and split grain matched fronts and maybe sides, but the backs are plain and/or rough hewn.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having been cut or mown down.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Having been cut or mown down.

adjective

Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hewn.

Example sentences

1

Hand carved and split grain matched fronts and maybe sides, but the backs are plain and/or rough hewn.

2

You might be looking for the more minimalist Grumpy which is hand-hewn from a pure silicon monocrystal.

3

He still doesn't use a computer, and his wife still uses a typewriter to transcribe his rustic hand-hewn longhand.

4

Besides, it's totally reasonable to think that the stones were rough-hewn at the quarry, then refined at the construction site.

5

Error messages or not, to me that's just feedback, just like the sculptors' fingers find roughly hewn spots on the surface.

6

You are right, there is nothing really mysterious about building big piles of rough-hewn limestone, or scraping out soft alabaster jars.

7

He would have failed, as the rough-hewn wooden gearboxes of the day were incapable of the power levels needed for rotary-wing flight.

8

His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood.

9

You're right, I don't think it's a fair trade -- I'm not going to pay money to beta test your admittedly unstable, rough-hewn software.

10

I do, however, think that the rough hewn stone and mortar of the chimney with the insets around it had a certain rustic beauty...

11

Even sculpture hewn from rock is ephemeral.

12

Tristan was transmuted into HMS Atlantic Isle, and its role was to patrol (from its rock-hewn state of immobility) for any German U-boats that might be lurking in the southern Atlantic.

Quote examples

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A better label is generally "rough hewn guideline to use in a first pass at design".

2

LLM only has a fixed context size ("chat length") and facts & instructions at the front of that tend to be better hewn to than things at the end.

3

Whatever agency we get is hewn out for us apriori by product teams, and any behavior not explicitly built in is a "Felony Contempt of Business Model" (an oh so accurate Doctorow-ism)!

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There is a real art to getting something in "good enough shape" to be interesting for the reviewer (ie, not wasting their time), and thought through enough so that the important tensions & dynamics are able to be shown in rough-hewn relief (ie, so the analysis is also useful to you).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hewn in a sentence?

Hand carved and split grain matched fronts and maybe sides, but the backs are plain and/or rough hewn.

What does hewn mean?

Having been cut or mown down.

What part of speech is hewn?

hewn is commonly used as adjective.