How to Use jigsaw puzzle in a Sentence

jigsaw puzzle

noun
  • We spent many nights working on a jigsaw puzzle of Mount Everest.
  • Even your teenage niece through a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • These new rules turned the whole space into a jigsaw puzzle.
    — K. Desbouis, Artforum, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Recipes and jigsaw puzzles Some folks like to give out recipe books.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Turn off the lights and start solving this glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The stretch of road between the forest and the town is cracked like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 11 June 2020
  • Nobody wants to make a jigsaw puzzle that’s covered in hard glue.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This might mean working with your hands, or doing a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • By the light of this lamp, Nell and Lizzie set out to do a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • No jigsaw puzzle of camp schedules.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
  • The kind of work that, like a jigsaw puzzle, calls you to lean in and examine each small piece.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 22 Feb. 2025
  • No, not so much in those terms because the – so the Iran deal is like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Like jigsaw puzzles, the greater the pieces in a model, the more time and skill the build requires.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Researchers were left to put them together like the pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle.
    — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • Because the truth is that friendships are more like a jigsaw puzzle, not a pyramid.
    — Priya Vulchi, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And if so, then go right to the themes and put together the giant jigsaw puzzle — or not.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 May 2022
  • At this point, she's completed every jigsaw puzzle in her house at least once.
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The segments, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, were then set into place over a steel skeleton.
    — Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Damiano said moving the awards online felt like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Ramishah Maruf, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • But the effect is like emptying all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out of the box onto the floor.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • One bit looked like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle and another like the stitching on a football.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Costco just listed a massive jigsaw puzzle that's likely to keep you busy – for a while.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Shipped from the factory packed in hay, the pieces of this giant jigsaw puzzle were sorted at the job site.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Bring up to five jigsaw puzzles of 500-plus pieces to exchange with others.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But his clip is lighter in tone, as the host attempts to show us how to boil the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, to sanitize them.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2020
  • So do the power-line towers, and the elaborate cheese plate, and the jigsaw puzzle in progress.
    — The Cut, 4 Apr. 2018
  • This holiday season, in a world that seems anxious on many fronts, maybe a good gift would be a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Kim Cook, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The dining room table for food, coffee, wine, and tea, the round kitchen table for a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Rosemary McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
  • The drone with the plug and the drone with the jack are designed to lock into one another, like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The whole thing came together — both in creating it and laying it out — a bit like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018

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