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
The mass of the building being of Istrian stone, a depth of about two inches is left within the mouldings of the arches, rough hewn, to receive the slabs of fine marble composing the patterns.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Enoch's rough hewn face, with its unalterably somber expression, was set in an almost painful concentration.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré
On the space between the cliffs and the water a few wooden buildings, rough hewn, marked the site of the lower town.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
