take to pieces
Example Sentences
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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 J. Watson Davis
The modern mind is more like a motor-car on a lonely road which two amateur motorists have been just clever enough to take to pieces but are not quite clever enough to put together again.*
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
She also purchased a box of models of common furniture, which were made to take to pieces, and to be put together again, and on which the names of all the parts were printed.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Maria Edgeworth
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 Kuno Francke
It is one thing to see a sophistry, and another to take to pieces the filmy threads of which it is composed.
From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy
