take to pieces
Example Sentences
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He could take to pieces a steam-engine or a watch, and put it together again.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
The modern mind is more like a motor-car on a lonely road which two amateur motorists have been just clever enough to take to pieces but are not quite clever enough to put together again.*
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
Every effort is made to render them easily transportable; the long girder frame by which the weight is distributed is made to take to pieces.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
Not that science is debarred from studying the external mechanism of a molecule which she cannot take to pieces, any more than from investigating an organism which she cannot put together.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
For, alas! we know only that which we can take to pieces.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
