jigsaw

Example Sentences

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What’s left of the jigsawed and taped-up pages might not provide the thoroughgoing record of his presidency that the law demands, but they are a wrenching testament to his penchant for wanton destruction.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022

These constant shifts of scene can be whiplash-inducing, and, at times, the chapters can feel jigsawed together — patchworks of examples undergirding premises stretched thin by all they are forced to contain.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2020

Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2019

Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2016

A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair