take to pieces
Example Sentences
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He could take to pieces a steam-engine or a watch, and put it together again.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
Analysis was to take to pieces everything he found, and find out how it was made.
From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles
In attempting, therefore, to take to pieces the machinery, there was the risk of destroying it.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
Not that science is debarred from studying the external mechanism of a molecule which she cannot take to pieces, any more than from investigating an organism which she cannot put together.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
Every effort is made to render them easily transportable; the long girder frame by which the weight is distributed is made to take to pieces.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
