How to Use hew to in a Sentence

hew to

verb
  • This election largely hewed to many of those same themes.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • The longer this one has gone on, the more its horrors have hewed to the demands of the show.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • On immigration, he is said to hew to Orbán’s hard-line views.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Johnson then hewed to talking points about crime rates in Chicago going down.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • To seek out life-saving medicines beyond their borders, or to hew to their backwards-looking ideals?
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The outfit nodded to early aughts dressing while hewing to the more polished, stealthy-chic vibe of right now.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That is partly by design, hewing to a structure that mirrors Evans’ own process of addiction and grief.
    — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Chad Powers largely hews to the familiar shape of a sports-underdog tale, so Chad’s ascent is never in doubt.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The lunch and dinner menu hew to the traditional end of the spectrum, with dishes like spaghetti all’amatriciana and Florentine steak.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, Goodwin noted, other Bay Area freeways hew to these carpool hours.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Kin, in contrast, bucks contemporary expectations by hewing to older ones.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Those turned off by Steyer’s ideology or his wealth were seemingly drifting to Swalwell, who hewed to a more or less moderate line.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The movie underscores the absurdity of attempting to hew to outdated philosophies in a selfish, modern culture.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Swedish-Bosnian legend implied that success comes from hewing to national tradition.
    — Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026
  • Wandering south like the blind protagonist of a Greek tragedy, Nurul Amin might have hewed to Niagara Street.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Krishnamoorthi has sought to hew to a moderate position on business issues and concerns while looking to more progressive positions on social issues like gay rights.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Matt John’s path unwaveringly hewed to soccer.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2026
  • No word yet on how closely Coel’s take will hew to the original, nor whether Coel will star as the fighter or if this could be a launchpad for a new MMA fighter turned actor.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This includes the leak last week of a 28-point plan for ending Russia’s war that was heavily criticized as hewing to Moscow’s maximalist demands.
    — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Where Capote diverged was in wanting to create a nonfiction narrative that in attention to style, character, atmosphere, voice, and pacing would display all the hallmarks of the finest fiction, while hewing to the facts.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Krofft children’s shows were uniquely creative, and the producer brothers made the most of their low budgets by repurposing characters for other series and creating shows that hewed to a similar formula.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That reference to unspecified warmongers hewed to her unfortunate pattern of spreading conspiracy theories.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • While Democrats have an 18 percentage-point voter registration advantage in the 22nd District, its Democratic voters hew to the middle.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • Again hewing to the Air’s spec, the Gravity Dream Edition should feature the larger of Lucid’s two battery packs, with 118 kW spread over 22 modules.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The oceanfront property, built in 2010, hews to British Colonial design, with columns anchoring the front and back of the residence, verandas wrapping all the way around, and a central two-story atrium that lets in fresh air.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But for decades—essentially since the 1960s, with the inception of ACIP—states have mostly chosen to hew to what the CDC says about how and when people should immunize.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Finances and income differences As has been the case for years, the economy finds Americans with two very different descriptions of their financial situation, in part hewing to their incomes and how much their financial situation is tied to the stock market.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • As a substitute, the board selected local architect William Pereira, who, never fully at ease with a modernist idiom, hewed to the middlebrow tastes and conservative politics of California’s philanthropic parvenus.
    — Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Rather than hewing to the strictly objective or at least neutral viewpoint dictated by conventional journalism’s professional norms, literary journalism’s viewpoint is unapologetically subjective.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Bob Daemmrich—The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg via Getty Images Advertisement Talarico does not hew to political language that has gone through the consultant mill.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Feb. 2026

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