take to pieces

Example Sentences

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And brains, auntie, you've no idea how curious they are; I haven't got to them yet, but I long to, and uncle is going to show me a manikin that you can take to pieces.

From Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May

"Yet," he proceeds, "those despicable clothes had, at different periods of time, bedecked real lords and dukes," and were of considerable value, if only to strip of their decorations and take to pieces.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

She also purchased a box of models of common furniture, which were made to take to pieces, and to be put together again, and on which the names of all the parts were printed.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Edgeworth, Maria

It is one thing to see a sophistry, and another to take to pieces the filmy threads of which it is composed.

From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy

Not infrequently I take to pieces a fine clock or watch and fail to find anything the matter with it, and yet it will not go as it should.

From Christopher and the Clockmakers by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)