Use "pieces" in a sentence

1. of the following pieces of doggerel† included here for your reading

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2. “Hello, I found it,” Henry whispered again, clutching several pieces of paper in his hand as he knocked again

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3. Her shin bone was probably in pieces, too, but her brain couldn't wrap itself around the pain

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4. He could even see the connecting pieces where the electrical circuit was able to monitor the status of the door

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5. “Of course it shouldn’t be a problem,” Ackers voice came loud and clear over the ear pieces both Johnny and Nancy were wearing

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6. With a deep sigh, he turned on the antique chairs and smashed them to pieces until there wasn’t a chunk bigger than his fist

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7. Henry was holding up two different pieces of paper and trying to look at both of them at the same time

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8. It was in a whole bundle of bits and pieces they had for that party

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9. He snapped it into pieces without taking his eyes off the fire

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10. I’d started in the kitchen, washing up the breakfast things and then taking the cooker to pieces, scouring the chrome rings and going wild with the oven cleaner

11. At one point, I nearly rang Emma, but thought better of it, she’d only feel that she had to come over and the last thing I want is for her to come round here and see me in pieces

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12. Though the word “God” was taboo, the songs were inspirational, secular pieces about love and salvation

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13. Lagonda in pieces all around me was a small moment of contemplative heaven

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14. It gave me a chance to pick up the pieces

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15. he would break her into a thousand pieces if he exerted any force upon her frail form

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16. Will was trying to tidy up the broken pieces of our family portraits, shards of glass and broken dishes

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17. She’s in pieces pretty well … Emma that is, Adrian has his hands full with her

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18. So in total I had exactly €16500 Euro plus the €475 I held back yesterday and we made up the odd €25 with bits and pieces of change around the house

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19. Only a few pieces of alien deck plate floated past before the first of it hit the bow

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20. In the reflection he saw the first of the pieces of wreckage Audacity had knocked towards them

21. The debris she knocked in the redsuits’ direction collided with other pieces on the way to create a storm of jagged metal and packing containers coming at them almost as fast as the junk itself

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22. Just as I started to get the image into some sort of focus, at the critical moment when I started to remember details about the garden, their clothes and the house, right then the truck would bounce or shake over rough English roads, and these carefully assembled pieces of the picture puzzle would break and scatter

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23. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!

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24. He remembers she called him her son which was baffling at first, but then the pieces started fitting together

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25. Herndon took them to a roastery, the only type of dining with significant pieces of meat available in this culture

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26. He leaned forward and kissed the limpid skin of her neck gently, afraid that he would break her into a thousand pieces if he exerted any force upon her frail form

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27. He just takes all of what we thought we knew smashes it to pieces

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28. For the Maasai of Kenya humanity was fashioned by the creator from a single tree or leg which split into three pieces

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29. Satan has chosen his chess pieces, and God has chosen His

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30. and other bits and pieces

31. To this day, if you go to the area that Caesarea used to be, you can find pieces of marble in the sand and on the tide

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32. One by one they were taken into a shack – hands tied behind their backs by barbed wire – and hacked to pieces with an axe so that no shots could be heard

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33. Staircases fall to pieces, gangways hang in the wind,

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34. They tore him to pieces in seconds

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35. The kitchen basin had been cracked in half by the force of the wood growing over it, the pieces were now at angles

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36. Daniel came forward holding pieces of material, which he gave to Kate

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37. There were large pieces of shell strewn about

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38. When he entered he saw the broken pieces of shell lying about

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39. You might eventually kill it if you cut enough pieces out of it, but it will be eating on you all the while

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40. Slowly it slumped and fell over, pieces of it's body and organs continuing to twitch

41. We had decided yesterday that we don’t need to take very much with us – just a small amount of food and drink and a first aid kit – or what passes as one here on Errd – along with a few other bits and pieces

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42. of belief, are told in pieces,

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43. I look round the cabin and slowly accumulate a pile of odd bits and pieces, heaping them up on the bunk so that Berndt can pack them

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44. At the water's edge I found tiny bits of waving, organic fluff clinging to the pebbles just where the bubbles melt away; curious purple pieces of seaweed no bigger than a crumb lying on the beach and spiky bits of crab shell attached to the occasional limb

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45. One by one they held out nubs of bread until the pieces filled my hands, then the bishop stood before me and blessed it, took a piece and popped it into his mouth

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46. The old man returned with something I didn't expect - a side plate with pieces of fish in batter, one of those dolmades vine-leaf parcels, some local bread, a few olives and a glass of something that didn't look like water to me

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47. As a man in a village of many old people, there was nothing your father could do against their irrepressible intimidation except collect pieces of evidence and bide his time

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48. Our pace quickened for the final thrust and so we raced, slipping and sliding through scattered sun-bleached tree bark, fragments of branches and odd pieces of driftwood that littered the stony ground until we were close enough to resist it no longer

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49. 'And I suppose we could try to rescue as many of the pieces at Faria as we could carry away,' my voice was small and hopeless

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50. There were some pieces which originally came from your parents’ place; you could have those here

51. 'That's an awful lot of paraphernalia you've got there, Alexi,' I whispered, indicating all the pieces on the little altar

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52. Her use of language is masterly and by the time she’s finished taking him to pieces there’s not a lot left

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53. Indeed, with the decline in rental income caused by the ever increasing costs of insurance, red tape and health and safety initiatives, great-aunt Edith had financed some of the finer pieces in the apartment, including a real Ming chrysanthemum pot and a small Lowry, through her prowess at conducting phishing expeditions across the global email network in search of the details of other people’s bank accounts

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54. Great-aunt Edith showed Annie how to scan photographs and store them as images on the computer, using a collection of her very own black and white artistic poses from her early days in the glamour business, images which would now be considered at best cute but in most cases just as period pieces

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55. Then in a handful of minutes she had gone, smashed to pieces

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56. I must pin Alastair down to what organ pieces he wants to include … we’ll have to schedule some rehearsals as well

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57. The girl went for the largest bug in a rage and sliced it to pieces before slumping to the ground in a heap, sobbing

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58. She reached for the platter before her and speared several pieces of fruit and something that resembled cheese

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59. The stuff in the shed, mainly garden implements, along with some car-related bits and pieces in the garage, can stay put – the tenants might find them useful

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60. There were many large pieces of machinery and consoles strewn about

61. Let the pieces fall together in the

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62. Around that pen was a large space filled with all sorts of men, each holding small pieces of parchment and making a racket

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63. be done, because it’s other pieces may have been adapted to it

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64. 8Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a

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65. financed some of the finer pieces in the apartment, including a real

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66. All his screens were fully rendered in pieces of plastic furniture piled in precarious heaps

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67. I heard that the wife … oh, it is annoying that I can’t remember her name! … really took one particular guy to pieces

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68. for certain pieces of furniture, things that’ll get a lot of wear over the

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69. Pieces of the jade bear from Amanda's car flew through the air and lodged in Joseph's forehead and chest

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70. The jade pieces glowed brilliantly for a few seconds and disappeared

71. They played, instead, with small pieces of straw

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72. Most of it is used clothing, books, small audio devices with dead chips, sticky pieces of candy on playing cards, gummed up erasers and out-of-date crib sheets

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73. “Not only is this poorly crafted---note how the threads of the wraps bulge over the burrs left on the guide feet, and the gaps between reel seat, grip and hardware---now listen:” and he pulled on the rod to separate the two pieces which made not a sound at the parting

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74. Maybe I'll just have to wait and see if some other pieces fall into place during the rest of the story

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75. Not wanting to go through Chas’s belongings, she had nagged Ozzie until he did something with the bits and pieces lying around in that room, then scrubbed it as though trying to obliterate every last memory of the man

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76. pointed out the various features and pieces of equipment with

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77. She handed it to him carefully, aligning the fiddly pieces of paper, and indicated the pen on the counter

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78. Too late he realises that his pieces are wide open

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79. my class I only caught bits and pieces of several different stories but one thing was

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80. His father put a hammer in his hand and set him to pounding nails, attaching long flat planks to larger pieces of lumber

81. He bid Harry fetch the rest of the pile as he carefully fitted the base pieces into their elongated oval shape

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82. He fetched more pieces of pipe with other odd bits and then pulled away some boards laying on the ground, heretofore unnoticed by anyone, which revealed a trench leading over to the side of the outhouse

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83. The van’s grill was now in pieces and

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84. and what used to be his cell phone hit the pavement in several shattered pieces

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85. took a big bite, cutting the apple with his teeth into two smaller pieces

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86. way with them” on any of the pieces

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87. tower fell, the other players got to choose any one of the acts written on the pieces,

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88. pieces I finally pulled the piece I’d been waiting for all night

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89. The concert’s going to be very informal with me introducing the pieces as we go

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90. I ask him what he wants me to say about his pieces but he pre-empts me by handing me a crib sheet on which he has written all the salient information

91. The splintered pieces of the wall were replaced and

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92. I’ve got to confirm all this with the men who will take the workstations to pieces and need to talk to IT about the computers

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93. Realising that he really had no choice, he’d gone through rehab and was now trying to pick up the pieces of normal life again

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94. pieces of pizza in record time

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95. Hawthorne scratched the top of his head, losing count of the pieces

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96. “You there, fine sir! Have you ever considered considering the consideration of considering to consider being more considerate? Well my good friend, I’m glad you asked, because,” Monica began to say on the TV, to which Olorhleng angrily smashed his television into a million tiny pieces

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97. pieces, rather than the whole? You said yourself you were happier now than you

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98. classrooms had Christmas trees, the choir and band performed pieces about the

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99. And with that, Justice picked up the Delacroix Church with one hand, without breaking a sweat, and tossed the building at one imp; it was hit with full force, and he was crushed into the ground, as the Delacroix Church itself fell into pieces and became rubble

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