Pieced
[pi:st]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Piece
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Examples
- All the letters had been pieced together with strips of thin paper. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called Nancy's Fancy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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