take to pieces
Example Sentences
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Analysis was to take to pieces everything he found, and find out how it was made.
From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles
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
"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
The Whitworth rifle was then brought in for me to take to pieces and teach him the use of; and then the chronometer.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
As soon as he had something with which to work, he began to take to pieces all manner of things just for the fun of putting them together again.
From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton
