in one piece
Example Sentences
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“Really, the only time a Formula 1 car is ever in one piece is when it sets off out of the garage at a racetrack.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
She was just trying to get home to her three kids in one piece.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026
There are so many negatives intruding that investors would be lucky to escape the coming year in one piece.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
Teams of players compete to gather materials on the surface, avoiding each other and killer robots, with the aim of getting back to base in one piece.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
She learned that they lived in wigwams, not teepees, and that they made canoes from the bark of a single white birch tree, removed in one piece so as not to kill it.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
