noun
All the beggar wanted was a piece of bread. A piece of shrapnel is still embedded in my arm
You may not have a piece of pie till you've eaten your vegetables
It turned out that a piece of the company had been sold without shareholders' approval
I read that piece about cholesterol in yesterday's paper. He wrote a piece for the flute. Which piece by Strindberg will you put on next?
Once you have touched a piece you must move it
Another earthquake and this wall will go to pieces. At the news of his son's death, Joe simply went to pieces
The vase lay in pieces at my feet. Though I had won the case, my life was in pieces
This book is of a piece with the others in the same series. All his paintings are of a piece
The French exam was a piece of cake
She gave him a piece of her mind about the amount of time he spent in the pub
For œ1000 you can have a piece of the action
All were given a chance to speak their piece
verb
We pieced together what happened from the witnesses' accounts. You'll never be able to piece together the bits of that lamp
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