How to Use jigsaw in a Sentence

jigsaw

1 of 2 noun
  • Use a handsaw or jigsaw to cut through the last bit of wood to free the waste piece.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2021
  • And Hayward is a part of that jigsaw.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
  • The sound of circular saws, jigsaws, and drills filled the air.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
  • Mark the curved sides with a pencil, and use a coping saw or jigsaw to cut the curves.
    — James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Use a jigsaw and simply saw from hole to hole to cut the handle opening to shape.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The jigsaw has a thin, rectangular blade that moves up and down.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Use a jigsaw to cut out the front door and the spaces between the slats that will form the vent in the back.
    — Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Now, other jigsaw pieces have begun to fall into place.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Cut the lattice to length using a fine-tooth metal-cutting blade in a jigsaw.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Users can then swap in compatible T-shank tools like jigsaw blades.
    — New Atlas, 4 June 2026
  • And so, the final pieces of the jigsaw — and these films always are a jigsaw — come into play.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Cut the notches with a dado blade in the table saw, or lay out each notch and use a jigsaw to remove the waste.
    — Rick Peters, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2016
  • With that final piece of the jigsaw came a sense of identity to the national team.
    — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The inside of the van was splattered with blood, and a chainsaw and jigsaw were soaking in water.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 May 2018
  • When using a jigsaw, wear closed-toe footwear, long pants, a long-sleeve shirt, safety glasses, gloves, a mask, and earplugs.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Cresswell would be the last piece of the jigsaw to boost their Premier League survival hopes.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • So keeping this jigsaw in your head is hard from a continuity point for me, but also for the actors.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Cut decorative rafters and rafter tails using a pattern and jigsaw.
    — Katie Leporte, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2021
  • Parenting is more like an enchanted labyrinth than a static jigsaw.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Cut the opening for a clamp head using a holesaw, then use a jigsaw to make a flat surface parallel to the sides.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Your appetite might differ, but for me, nine novels in, all this code-cracking and jigsaw-puzzling is no longer thrilling.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The shapes are cut with a jigsaw and computerized router, sanded by hand, and then finished with shellac.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But the search for the last piece of Nuno’s January jigsaw continues.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Frankenthaler often used a jigsaw to cut shapes that were printed separately.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The other issue is fitting a Wiggins-size jigsaw piece back into the team puzzle.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Every week these retirees solve cold cases in the jigsaw room of the vast countryside estate that makes up their retirement home.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Cut it out with a jigsaw [b], then freehand drill the thumbhole at a shallow angle with a 7⁄16-inch paddle bit.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • At the time of formation, no homes were built within the district’s jigsaw boundaries, so no homeowners were around to vote on long-term costs.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The faces and voices are mostly familiar, but they’re jumbled together in a jigsaw of football talk.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • All over Tuscany, the party is losing pieces of its political jigsaw.
    — Lorenzo Totaro, Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018

jigsaw

2 of 2 adjective
  • There the second wife does jigsaw puzzles in the vast living room and grows to hate him.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2017
  • The doors leading to the first-floor bathroom form a jigsaw puzzle of thin metal.
    — Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • Cut the resulting parabola out with a jigsaw to form the mouth of your bootjack.
    — Teddy Boxberger, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The cloth is cut into jigsaw-like pieces that’ll eventually become jeans, and then left to sit overnight so the fabric can shrink to the right size.
    — Tara Lamont-Djite, Marie Claire, 2 May 2018
  • One of the biggest inquiries had to do with the fact that poverty tax exemptions — while a piece of the tax foreclosures jigsaw — are not retroactive.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The final big piece of the friendly jigsaw puzzle was a bit of schedule juggling by FC Cincinnati.
    — Patrick Brennan, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2017
  • What’s good is exceptional—a meeting of minds, and then more, between two jigsaw-puzzle prodigies—while the rest is perfunctory or lifeless.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • All of the sadness and dejection that the West Germans caused back in '82 had been washed away by the final piece of the jigsaw slotting in seamlessly.
    — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Her friends remember an enthusiastic, card-playing traveler who loved animals and jigsaw puzzles.
    — Sylviane Gold, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
  • The Red Wings hockey ice will remain on the floor, with the Pistons basketball court installed on top of it jigsaw fashion, easily installed and removed.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In her room, plastic bins of clothes are stuffed to the brim and stored under her bed; pink and white little girls' dresses hang on closet doors, price tags still on; wardrobes are filled with 100-piece jigsaw puzzles and children's books.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • There are dedicated people with cumulative decades of experience—and panache for geeky math—who are juggling demands from many different corners, and who work to optimize a schedule that makes the jigsaw pieces fit.
    — Allison Hope, CNT, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Items reported stolen included nail guns, a chainsaw, router table, power saw, reciprocating saw, jigsaw, saber saw, folding table, lock jaw table, hand planer, drill and pneumatic wrench.
    — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The living room has a bookshelf full of Russian language guides, DVDs, astronaut jigsaw puzzles, and board games, which are perfect for a wild night on the mountain with your five favorite roommates.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
  • That Chelsea Manning, who lived for seven years in punitive and inhumane conditions, had found some hope, some comfort, by pondering the beauty of a Dior jacket or the hideousness of jigsaw print leggings?
    — Sally Singer, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017

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