take to pieces
Example Sentences
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When he was only twelve years old he was able to take to pieces and reset the family clock and a patent lever watch, using no tool for this purpose but his pocket-knife.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney
The few books that I have tried to take to pieces and to re-construct are not enough—or at least it would be necessary to deal with them more searchingly.
From The Craft of Fiction by Lubbock, Percy
"It does not happen to be the kind of piano one can take to pieces, Miss Grant, is it?"
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Watson, Robert
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 George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
We admit nothing now without question; we have learnt to take to pieces all motives to actions.
From Is Life Worth Living? by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
