1. He rough-hewed a statue out of a block of jade rapidly but then polished it slowly over a long period.

2. It is a rough-hewn carving of a cat's head.

3. She's an experienced politician with a rough-hewn style.

4. He rough-hewed the resolution of the meeting and sent it to the chairman.

5. But he was no ordinary rough-hewn miner.

6. The rough-hewn cemetery where his son lies buried.

7. If the first shape is a series of rough-hewed approximations, the second is a shiny patchwork of beautifully stitched leather cut-outs.

8. About the life-matches that had been brewed here, come to life under this moon, and these rough-hewn walls.

9. She traced a pattern over the rough-hewn stone of the sill, while behind her there was no sound of retreating footsteps.

10. Despite its rough-hewn reputation, the street is not a particularly dangerous spot these days, according to Merrill.Sentencedict

11. It began as a rough-hewn two-room house whose top floor could be reached only by an outdoor staircase.

12. The glossy conventions of Hollywood were spurned in favour of a rough-hewn cinematic style more suited to the reality at hand.

13. But once the land is thus rough-hewn it is shaped by other forces.

14. Ring after ring of rough-hewn stone walls thunder their way across the open plain on the deserted south-eastern edge of the city.