pull to pieces
Example Sentences
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Don't pull to pieces or take out titles and indexes.
From A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana
Tease, earlier toose, means to pluck or pull to pieces, hence the name teasel for the thistle used by wool-carders.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
That's all that he can do—just sneer, And pull to pieces and be analytic.
From Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce
There was no scheme or project he couldn’t pull to pieces with the utmost industry, but I never remember his originating any scheme of his own to take its place.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
Look at the exquisite fitting in any seed-vessel that you pull to pieces: the seeds are as close as they will go, but fenced off from crowding on each other and hindering each other's growth.
From Parables of the Christ-life by I. Lilias Trotter
