How to Use piece together in a Sentence

piece together

phrasal verb
Definition of piece togethernext
  • Then comes the challenge of putting the pieces together.
    — Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Use a serger or a tight zig-zag stitch around the edges to sew the pieces together.
    — Jennifer White, Parents, 30 July 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
  • Crane, Collins and Cordier are eager to put the pieces together.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 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
  • Later, distance and time gave me the clarity to put the pieces together.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2024
  • After much soul searching across time, Lilia reads her own fortune through tarot cards and pieces together the clues for the rest of the coven.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 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
  • This led fans to deep dive into past press events and interviews to piece together reasons for the odd press tour.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Fans pieced together that the pair had met back in 2019 when Del Rey posted a Facebook album of her and her girlfriends taking one of Dufrene’s tours.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Officials soon pieced together that the capsules were laced with cyanide.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • Now, in a new study published this month in Science Advances, researchers have finally been able to piece together the head of Arthropleura and shine a light on the face of this many-legged beast.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Why do Love Is Blind’s producers insist on starting scenes with couples midway through a fight, leaving us to piece together what the fight is even about?
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 25 Oct. 2024

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