take to pieces

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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