How to Use hew to in a Sentence

hew to

phrasal verb
Definition of hew tonext
  • Her campaign closely hewed to the issues and messages Trump made popular years ago.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
  • The final plan hews to a proposal CMS put out last year but has some changes.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The porthole door and globe lights in this Texas home's swanky bar alcove, designed by Meredith McBrearty, hew to the theme.
    — House Beautiful, 5 June 2023
  • Cleaning up the crime scene The attack on Patient 2 hewed to the pattern in another way, as well.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • Does that mean audiences should expect his words onstage to stringently hew to the facts on the ground?
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • For the longest times, politicians felt a responsibility to at least try to hew to the truth.
    — Cquinn, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Feinstein hewed to the center-right, and again declined to focus much on her gender.
    — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Back then the pinnacle of high achievement hewed to more classical lines—and stereotypes.
    — Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Once in office, of course, Trump hewed to the right, losing that moderate advantage.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Whoever accepts the job will not have to hew to a code of conduct, as organizers dispensed with it this past May.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 July 2024
  • Then the model with human drivers starts a steady upward climb that continues to hew to the historical record.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The delineation of duties in a sports-broadcasting booth hews to a famous formula.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The agreement largely hews to the debt-ceiling deal of last spring, with a few additional fiscal benefits.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The agreement largely hews to spending caps for defense and domestic programs that Congress set as part of a bill to suspend the debt limit until 2025.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The Times, hewing to its policy about politicians’ private lives, was slow to pick up on the story, which was soon verified by other news outlets.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Climate models have expanded in scale and reach, but at each step the models must hew to a ground truth of historical, measurable fact.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • There's no indication of which flavor of Markdown Google's import and export functions will hew to, and Ars was unable to test the new function as of July 17.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
  • But what Sanders was pitching, in his view, was so much more than a remake, or even what the musical had been — a version that, while hewing to the original story, reshapes its vision.
    — Nekesa Mumbi Moody, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The team closely hewed to Rivera’s original design, which sought to respect the natural environment.
    — Tessa Solomon For Artnews, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Others travel for indefinite periods and hew to the idea of unschooling.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There is, to be sure, much for conservatives to love: the doll Margot Robbie’s character is based on is a white woman who hews to conventional feminine beauty standards.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
  • Instead of hewing to Billboard categories, the playlist was built for cross-genre music discovery, with mixes that cull, collect, and collage up-and-coming artists from a sweep of what Spotify calls micro-genres.
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 8 May 2024
  • Many hew to a particular point of view, shared by users online and boosted by algorithms that reward shocking or emotional content over nuance or balance.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The Democrats who followed Reagan largely hewed to the same pro-business handbook, limiting government interference in the economy.
    — Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Guest rooms, which hew to a rustic richness, are outfitted with stylish yet sturdy farm tables, colorful Portuguese textiles, and vintage botanical prints.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • The universe already has a small amount of nonlocality baked into it from quantum mechanics, although this quality still hews to Einstein’s view of a local universe.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Chef Zachary Baker hews to an Italian aesthetic — that is, preparing dishes with a restraint that highlights the high-quality, in-season ingredients.
    — jsonline.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • That message both acts as a contrast with the more combative Landry while also hewing to the bipartisan approach Edwards employed during his successful campaigns.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Downey offers a more closely cropped portrait of the era, hewing to the narrative of his long captivity, but his account is nonetheless revealing about this early chapter of U.S.-Chinese relations.
    — Jane Perlez, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Yet, the fighting over Israel’s border with Lebanon has remained relatively constrained, hewing to unspoken rules of engagement that emerged from Israel’s monthlong war with Hezbollah in 2006.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023

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