Examples of 'hewn out' in a sentence

Meaning of "hewn out"

hewn out: This phrase is often used in a literal sense to describe the action of cutting or shaping something, such as stone or wood, with a tool or instrument. It conveys a sense of craftsmanship or laborious effort in creating or forming an object

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It was hewn out of the rock of the headland.
Visiting subterranean churches hewn out of rock.
Hewn out of a single block of stone.
It was either a natural cave or hewn out of the rock.
A tomb hewn out of solid rock.
The chaitya halls were monastic sanctuaries hewn out of rock.
The temple hewn out of rock consists of two complexes.
Two hundred years ago hewn out of the rock.
Hewn out of granite.
Huge blocks which have been hewn out of the mountainside.
Hewn out of rock.
They are fitted into sockets that were hewn out of the bedrock.
It was hewn out of the rock by Turkish prisoners.
They were in a new cave that seemed to be hewn out of natural quartz.
The Grotto is hewn out of black lava rock from Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

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Not all the branches were hewn out of the olive tree.
One of them is hewn out of the rock, the other is a traditional construction.
Wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewn out her.
The forecourt has benches hewn out of the rock for the benefit of visitors.
The tour takes you beneath the church to ancient chambers hewn out of rock.
The doors turned in a carefully hewn out stone ring and could be locked with a bar.
They were buried by the Christians in a grotto hewn out of the rock.
Hewn out of the mountainside, it had lain buried in sand for hundreds of years.
Under the foundations of the church are tombs hewn out of the solid rock.
In total 30 excavations were hewn out of the rock which also include an unfinished one.
Every Christian is like a piece of stone hewn out of a big rock.
Hewn out of solid gold, a tall ship sailed,.
Initially the underground sections were laboriously hewn out with hammer and chisel.
The temple, hewn out of rock, comprises two complexes.
A navy foremost in the world a mighty fleet hewn out of the forests of england.
It has a church hewn out of rock with amazing 12th century frescoes.
But this might be a problem statues, hewn out of cardboard.
The devious old road, hewn out of the mountainside, was full of it.
It includes a complex of stupa with monastery, hewn out of the rock.
Indeed, the Sphinx is hewn out of the solid, living rock.
Vaulted galleries, thousands of yards long, were blasted and hewn out of solid rock.
The river has hewn out an underground course here and this has been explored since 1962.
Stairways, temples and triclinia hewn out of the rock.
There, Sweden . Hewn out of granite.
Overlooking the valley, Cordes-sur-Ciel is a true jewel hewn out of the rock.
And as a substitute, they have hewn out for themselves cisterns.
Mark has the body laid in " a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock . ".
These eight century rock-cut caves were hewn out of the hills and sculpted intricately.
Laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock.
Linen, and laid it in a tomb hewn out of rock, in which no.
An unknown visitor in 1863 had a stone bench hewn out of a rock.
To do this, the millstones were initially hewn out of one piece of rock.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.
The judges sat in the open air, upon seats hewn out in the rock.
Similarly the souls are, as it were, pieces hewn out of the Shechina.

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It was hewn out of the rock of the headland
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