How to Use piece by piece in a Sentence

piece by piece

adverb
  • Gross built this road piece by piece on the way up.
    — Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Place the kindling piece by piece in a tipi shape over the flames.
    — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Oct. 2020
  • So this was a way of me sort of finding my way through it piece by piece.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Dec. 2018
  • So did his soccer career, day by day, piece by piece.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
  • Mara ate hers piece by piece, plucking each one like a jewel.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • Take a deep breath and try to figure things out piece by piece instead.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • For Wright and his staff, the work goes on — painstaking piece by piece.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Once finished, the lettuce is placed piece by piece in a mound on a long plate.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot happening here, so let’s break things down piece by piece.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Breaking down a climb piece by piece makes the challenge less daunting.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The other option would be to take it down piece by piece, starting at the top.
    — Segann March, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Shrapnel from the missile was laid out neatly on the side of the road, piece by piece.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Since then, she's been making her house with Scott into a home, piece by piece.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Since then, she's been making her house with Scott into a home, piece by piece.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This jovial person starts to shut down bit by bit, and your heart continues to break piece by piece.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The next several columns are going to lay it out, piece by piece.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • Might get to the rest, piece by piece, as a recurring segment in issues to come.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2023
  • In the months that followed, a skeleton was recovered piece by piece.
    — Eliot Bush, Scientific American, 27 June 2020
  • The cathedral stairway was brought piece by piece from England.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
  • The collection is meant to be absorbed piece by piece, slowly, over time.
    — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The small, close-up gestures, piece by piece, add up to a captivating whole.
    — Love Pulls You Close, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • For the past weeks, Hillman has been selling off his beloved bowling palace piece by piece.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • As the grievances mounted, piece by piece, year by year, the distinction blurred.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Lindsey and her team have now rebuilt the bridge piece by piece, if just a bit further downstream.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Using those rules, the AI cranks through sentences and takes them apart, piece by piece.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Baer brought her to the pool house and instructed her to remove her clothes piece by piece, Kim said.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
  • At the bottom of a valley, the site of an ancient fort has been uncovered piece by piece.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • All remaining evidence of life was stripped out piece by piece and taken to the sea.
    — Sophia Leone, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Toller is in nearly every shot, and Hawke builds his portrait of a good man, lost, piece by piece.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • She is allowed to rebuild the character from the inside out, piece by piece.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'piece by piece.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: