take to pieces
Example Sentences
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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
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet must first become a little child, he must take to pieces the whole web of his mind.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
"Yet," he proceeds, "those despicable clothes had, at different periods of time, bedecked real lords and dukes," and were of considerable value, if only to strip of their decorations and take to pieces.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
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 Ward, Maisie
The Whitworth rifle was then brought in for me to take to pieces and teach him the use of; and then the chronometer.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
