piece together

Example Sentences

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The room tilts as my brain tries to piece together the preposterous idea she’s proposing.

From Literature

This comparison allowed them to piece together the galaxy's likely history of growth and mergers.

From Science Daily

This month, Slovenia’s intelligence department began reaching out to other European spy agencies to try to identify the visitors—and piece together a mystery that has reverberations from Ukraine to Israel to the war in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal

In space, scientists use a similar approach called galactic archaeology to piece together the history of stars and galaxies.

From Science Daily

In interviews with The Wall Street Journal, U.S. citizens described getting little useful guidance besides a hotline message that warned them not to rely on the government for evacuation, and paying out of pocket to piece together their own routes home by car and commercial flights.

From The Wall Street Journal