take to pieces
Example Sentences
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In attempting, therefore, to take to pieces the machinery, there was the risk of destroying it.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Grenfell helped take to pieces a "sulphur-bottom" whale ninety-five feet long, supposed to weigh nearly 300,000 pounds.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Waldo
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 George John Romanes
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 John Hanning Speke
"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 Robert Watson
