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
It is a rambling house of moderate size, quaintly made of rough hewn beams with reed-stiffened clay in between, and opening on to the street.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Killa Tur is a stone building mostly below the surface of the hill-top, of rough hewn stone cemented with lime mortar of the hardness of concrete.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
There was a door now made of great rough hewn slabs of wood.
From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney
