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6 total sentences available.
A ship's captain must remain observant that a reliable buoy be attached to each anchor by a sturdy rope, so that one could find and raise the anchor if its anchor-cable were to be shorn apart, were to fall into the sea or were to be hewn apart.
Source: tatoeba (1776092)
Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace.
Source: tatoeba (6789616)
He in the forefront, tallest of the tall, / poleaxe in hand, unhinging at a stroke / the brazen portals, made the doorway fall, / and wide-mouthed as a window, through the oak, / a panelled plank hewn out, a yawning rent he broke.
Source: tatoeba (6839909)
The statue was hewn out of the purest white marble.
Source: tatoeba (7740995)
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Closest matches include carve, carved, chisel, cut, hand-hewn.
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