How to Use jigsaw puzzle in a Sentence

jigsaw puzzle

noun
Definition of jigsaw puzzlenext
  • We spent many nights working on a jigsaw puzzle of Mount Everest.
  • By the light of this lamp, Nell and Lizzie set out to do a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Like jigsaw puzzles, the greater the pieces in a model, the more time and skill the build requires.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The stretch of road between the forest and the town is cracked like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 11 June 2020
  • The rest of the year was a clumsy jigsaw puzzle of a season.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022
  • Turn off the lights and start solving this glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 9 Dec. 2022
  • No, not so much in those terms because the – so the Iran deal is like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But the effect is like emptying all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out of the box onto the floor.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • And if so, then go right to the themes and put together the giant jigsaw puzzle — or not.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 May 2022
  • The drone with the plug and the drone with the jack are designed to lock into one another, like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Put together the jigsaw puzzle you've had stored for years in the top of your closet.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • So do the power-line towers, and the elaborate cheese plate, and the jigsaw puzzle in progress.
    — The Cut, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But his clip is lighter in tone, as the host attempts to show us how to boil the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, to sanitize them.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Shipped from the factory packed in hay, the pieces of this giant jigsaw puzzle were sorted at the job site.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Researchers were left to put them together like the pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle.
    — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • Imagine trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle where the same fluffy clouds are scattered six, eight, a dozen times in the same corner of the sky.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The segments, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, were then set into place over a steel skeleton.
    — Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Nobody wants to make a jigsaw puzzle that’s covered in hard glue.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The dining room table for food, coffee, wine, and tea, the round kitchen table for a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Rosemary McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
  • The spoils of oil South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is like a jigsaw puzzle that has been broken apart, soaked in petrol and set alight.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Signs of the children were everywhere: a jigsaw puzzle, a small black shoe, a tiny blanket.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The jigsaw puzzle known as the 2023 football schedule for BYU put another piece in place this week.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • This might mean working with your hands, or doing a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Turns out White Claws and jigsaw puzzles aren't our only go-tos to help pass the time during quarantine.
    — Carli Whitwell, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
  • Instead of surfing the web, guests play Candy Land, read or do jigsaw puzzles.
    — Carol Pucci, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • The jigsaw puzzle in the secondary Utah’s defense is rarely the issue for Whittingham.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • This holiday season, in a world that seems anxious on many fronts, maybe a good gift would be a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Kim Cook, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The whole thing came together — both in creating it and laying it out — a bit like a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
  • To avoid a beast of a reassembly jigsaw puzzle, label each cabinet with a number, and give its corresponding door the same one.
    — Kenzi Wilbur, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
  • When cooled, the tiles snapped together like a self-assembling jigsaw puzzle into one of three possible shapes, depending on the balance of DNA tile shapes in the mixture.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024

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