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
He saw, scrutinizing it intently, that the stone blocks that composed it were not smooth cut, but rough hewn, with the marks of the cutters' chisels plainly in evidence.
From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Ernst, Paul
Enoch's rough hewn face, with its unalterably somber expression, was set in an almost painful concentration.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré
A straight desk of rough hewn wood stood in the corner by the white-curtained window, and a couch and two large easy-chairs faced a tall narrow fireplace of uneven stone.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
