take to pieces
Example Sentences
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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
Wherefore it is not sufficient to write verses merely in proper language; which if you take to pieces, any person may storm in the same manner as the father in the play.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
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
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 Edgeworth, Maria
And brains, auntie, you've no idea how curious they are; I haven't got to them yet, but I long to, and uncle is going to show me a manikin that you can take to pieces.
From Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May
