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
And, though she set a plain woman's value on good looks, his appearance, rough hewn like a statue in porphyry, pleased her singularly.
From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
A stool stood before a rough hewn table on which were an hour-glass, a breviary, a skull and an iron lamp.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne
The foreshore was honeycombed with shallow pits, shored, and timbered with rough hewn timber.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
