take to pieces

Example Sentences

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The few books that I have tried to take to pieces and to re-construct are not enough—or at least it would be necessary to deal with them more searchingly.

From The Craft of Fiction by Lubbock, Percy

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

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

We would sit down with bated breath and tense-drawn nerves to take to pieces for the first time the delicate machinery of a watch for cleaning and readjustment.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.

"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