HEW in a Sentence

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For HEW, below is one of 8 sentences:
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.  cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut
Classic Sentence:
1  Our swords must hew a way through the enemy.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
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
5  The Prussian cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, exterminates.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
Example Sentence:
1  They hew their way through the dense jungle.
2  He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.