hew to
phrasal verb
hewed to; hewed to or hewn to; hewing to; hews to
US
: to follow or obey (something)
Everyone must hew to the rules/standards.
He is a politician who has always hewed closely to the party line.
Examples of hew to in a Sentence
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In Banff National Park, which was created in 1885 and is Canada’s oldest, officials until 1983 hewed to a strict policy of fire suppression, rather than take significant steps to prevent or manage fires.
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Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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
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
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 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
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
—Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
Once in office, of course, Trump hewed to the right, losing that moderate advantage.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
But Indonesian elites also believe that upholding these principles makes practical sense; the country’s interests will be best served by autonomy, not by hewing to the inclinations of a more powerful external partner.
—Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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
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
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 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
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
—Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
Once in office, of course, Trump hewed to the right, losing that moderate advantage.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
But Indonesian elites also believe that upholding these principles makes practical sense; the country’s interests will be best served by autonomy, not by hewing to the inclinations of a more powerful external partner.
—Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
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“Hew to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hew%20to. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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