How to Use piece together in a Sentence

piece together

phrasal verb
  • Then comes the challenge of putting the pieces together.
    Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • With the Lego version of the Death Star as their stage, the set includes 807 parts for fans to piece together.
    Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 1 May 2023
  • Will the Padres put the pieces together and make a big run in 2024, fueled in part to win for Seidler?
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The sequence of events that Mai helped piece together began with the theft of some bread.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Pin pieces together in a loose bun to create a messier look that's a bit more fun.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The comforter had loops on four corners, and putting the two pieces together was easy.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The making of the book was a process in itself of looking back to piece together my view of myself.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Krebs was working his own sources to piece together many of the same connections the FBI had drawn.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Against a stable of Detroit pitchers that was pieced together on the fly.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • Now, more than 24 hours after the shooting, police are putting the pieces together.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot of people that can piece together $3 million.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Together Overlap right sides of the fabric and pin the pieces together.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2023
  • My mother, Jacqueline, was the person in our family who held the pieces together when things were about to fall apart.
    Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Google has been working on podcasts in various shapes and forms since 2016 and has never even come close to putting all the pieces together.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Through interviews and some of Treadwell’s final footage, the film pieces together his life and the aftermath of his death.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The challenge will be finding a way to put all the pieces together consistently.
    CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • In the weeks that followed, the police spoke with several people to piece together what had happened to Gretchen.
    Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Now, the task becomes putting the pieces together and showing improvement.
    Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Officials soon pieced together that the capsules were laced with cyanide.
    Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • One surprising facet of Adam, which Mia has to piece together, must remain a mystery here.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the face of such challenges, some have pieced together their own support system by relying on friends.
    Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Could this be an attempt to piece together an offer that can compete with Amazon Prime?
    Nikki Baird, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Depending on their education and the nature of their work, there were those who were able to piece together more of Oak Ridge’s purpose.
    Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • The fields are pieced together from properties that went fallow after their owners died or got too old to manage them.
    Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But, over time, dozens of people from the community came forward to help piece together this story.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The music sounded great, but to release it Feldman would need to piece together details, starting with who else was playing on it.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Don't feel like piecing together a system from parts yourself?
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The sanctuary is left to piece together the clues of what happened to the animals, like why the baby alligators arrived with white paint all over them.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • With a quarter down, Roger Bacon pieced together its offense and defense.
    Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Philadelphia singer-songwriter pieced together the new EP from sessions recorded over the past four years.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023

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