were hewing
- past progressive of hew.
Example Sentences
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Each said later they were hewing to guidelines that all Americans have been asked by health officials to follow.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2020
U.S. military planners last week were hewing closely to Cordesman's line and planning for contingencies based on the nature of any foreseeable Iranian provocations.
From Time Magazine Archive
To read it is to regret that, being able to do this, he chose rather to write, from time to time, as if he were hewing his way through tangled underwood.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
Six hundred souls one summer's day, Worked in the deep, dark Hutton seams; Men were hewing the coal away, Boys were guiding the loaded teams.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey
While the men were hewing down the trees, Mrs Rumbelow, with four of the most active women, set to work to cut the grass for thatching.
From The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. by Kingston, William Henry Giles