PIECE in a Sentence
Learn PIECE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
381 example sentences for PIECE, such as:
1. This is a piece of work I can be proud of.
2. The detectives tried to piece together the facts.
3. He nibbled a piece of bread while drawing a picture.
4. He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
5. The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.
2. The detectives tried to piece together the facts.
3. He nibbled a piece of bread while drawing a picture.
4. He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
5. The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PIECE
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piece
v. to join or unite the pieces of
v. join during spinning
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "Very interesting reading it might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick on his finger.
2 In this particular corner of the room a large piece had peeled off, leaving a yellow square of coarse plastering.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3 Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help to examine the little camp.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4 She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner.
5 Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
6 He called the animals together and told them that he had a terrible piece of news to impart.
7 The nurse had been sewing--there was a piece of linen on the table.
8 Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
9 A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
10 She steeped a piece of linen in a basin, into which she poured some liquid from a bottle, and laid it with a gentle hand upon the sore.
11 Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
12 You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
13 The last ten he told over with much deliberation, pausing, and saying something as he took each piece from the table, and dropt it into his purse.
14 The stem of a young fir-tree lopped of its branches, with a piece of wood tied across near the top, was planted upright by the door, as a rude emblem of the holy cross.
15 I have no mind to encounter a sentence of degradation, or even to lose my Preceptory, for the sake of a painted piece of Jewish flesh and blood.
Example Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1 Dismissal of the last piece of evidence as unreliable would severely affect our case.
2 He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.
3 This book is designed to be provocative rather than a watertight piece of economic analysis.
4 The radio had been stolen, but otherwise we got the car back in one piece.
5 We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
6 Archaeologists have worked for years to piece together the huge mosaic.
7 The detectives tried to piece together the facts.
8 We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
9 There were four of us, so we divided the orange into quarters and each ate a piece.
10 You can use italics or capitals to emphasize a word in a piece of writing.
11 This new piece of evidence invalidates his version of events.
12 He nibbled a piece of bread while drawing a picture.
13 He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
14 This is a piece of work I can be proud of.
15 The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.