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

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

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

She's so light she will float on a good heavy dew, and then she's so easy to take to pieces and pack away.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson

Grenfell helped take to pieces a "sulphur-bottom" whale ninety-five feet long, supposed to weigh nearly 300,000 pounds.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton