How to Use piece together in a Sentence

piece together

phrasal verb
Definition of piece togethernext
  • But, still, pieced together, what these statistics mean is that women today have much longer adulthoods before yoking their lives to a partner or a child than previous generations did.
    — Victoria Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
  • Representatives at the Black Archives know firsthand the challenge of trying to piece together a story with missing pieces.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2024
  • Then comes the challenge of putting the pieces together.
    — Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This is a story, pieced together and told in full for the first time, that leads to the heart of Israel.
    — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 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
  • While the two battle for dominance, Furiosa must survive and piece together the means to find her way home.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • After the person came out of intensive care, Moss sat down with him and tried to piece together what happened.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 July 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
  • Could Dana Altman piece together one last major run left in Eugene?
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
  • 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

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