take to pieces

Example Sentences

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As soon as he had something with which to work, he began to take to pieces all manner of things just for the fun of putting them together again.

From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton

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

"And yet," said she, "you have begun to take to pieces and destroy our family, as I have destroyed this flower."

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

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

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