How to Use piece in a Sentence

piece

1 of 2 noun
  • I watched her rip the letter to pieces and throw it away.
  • We're missing one piece of the puzzle.
  • Her broken bicycle lay in pieces by the side of the road.
  • You have a piece of lettuce stuck between your teeth.
  • Divide the pie into six equal pieces.
  • I took apart the engine piece by piece and put it back together again.
  • The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter.
  • There are 12 pieces in this stainless steel knife set.
  • Then pick a piece of the dream.
    — Nancy K Schlossberg, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • This flowy piece is made for the hottest days.
    — Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026
  • Don’t go to jail for this piece of s---, please.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Williams and Clark are the key pieces up front.
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The streaming piece is one piece of it.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • Cause right now your a piece of s--t for real.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • The steppe looks like a sinewy piece of yellow meat.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But there is more to the piece than just laughter.
    — Courtney Cole, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • And now, the missing piece has found her way home.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • These are human lives, not pieces on a game board.
    — Shawn Vandiver, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • What makes a song, a singer, a piece of music gay?
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • All the parts made sense, all the pieces to the puzzle made sense.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2026
  • And then there are the questions about where these pieces are and why?
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • This top is one of those rare pieces that feels both structured and easy.
    — Aashna Gheewalla, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Make sure each piece includes a part of the root crown and some leaves.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Then, keep scrolling to shop more cozy, fall-ready pieces available now.
    — Averi Baudler, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The piece will set you back $14,500.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
  • And a new piece of evidence has joined the pile.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Want to bring back a piece of your holiday?
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 9 June 2026
  • One more piece of tech that debuted that year?
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There have been a few dramatic pieces here and there.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Take a second to think about your favorite piece of gear.
    — Kristen Geil, Outside, 13 Mar. 2026

piece

2 of 2 verb
  • Godinez pieced Andrade up for three rounds.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • And from there, anyone can sort of piece it together as to what this is.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
  • Of course, someone first has to piece the whole thing together.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 24 May 2022
  • Anyway, the ladies piece together that Jen got a tip-off call.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Reisbeck went to the scene and tried to piece together what happened.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Now, Kolchenko and his team are piecing it back together.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • No matter the size, just don’t forget to give your new chess pieces a soak in the sink every once in a while.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Plates and bowls of varying colors pieced from different sets?
    — Alex Milmeyster, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The two men, by that time, began piecing a plan together and met with their wives about it.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • But that didn’t stop them from piecing the sequence together.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
  • She will be ruined once people piece this together.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • How does a person begin to piece his life back together and make amends after all this?
    — Austin Elias-De Jesus, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Don't try to piece this together from drugstore bottles.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Those two aren’t the only ones who piece a few clues together for a major reveal.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But details were only made public and pieced together in the past three weeks.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Ahead, nine of our favorite runway looks to take into spring, and how to piece them together.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Acting coach Scott Brooks has tried to piece things together.
    — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But, as far as some of us can piece together, there has been a debate among top-level leaders.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Texas State struggled to piece its team together through the first three months of the season.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • For now, the Royals are trying to piece their bullpen together.
    — Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
  • Over the course of several decades, researchers have pieced together what makes up the rest of the mass.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Greens tried to piece together what seemed to be the last day of Dominic’s life.
    — Kiera Feldmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Aside from the characters, there’s a wealth of archival footage that helps piece this puzzle together.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • These schools often need to piece together programs for their students.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • It had been related to her by adults who had pieced their guesses together into a form that could be told.
    — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But all of them are marked by the narrator’s stubborn quest to piece together his story.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
  • In this video, a group of law enforcement officers tries to piece together how events in the church played out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Preller has yet to piece together a winning record in any of his seven full-season laps with the Padres.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, teams relied on trial and error to piece it back together.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Then trying to piece the puzzle together of like, Oh, the grandson.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023

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