How to use "piece" in a sentence

To free my hand, I must remove a piece of rock over fifteen centimetres wide and seven centimetres deep

She wrote their email addresses on a piece of paper and left it on the truck window.

Perhaps I can remove this large piece before I stop for the night

I hit the boulder as hard as I can and the piece of rock falls onto my trapped arm

I chip at the rock for another hour and remove as much as the piece that came off before

There's a sharp piece of rock above my head

Mrs Ralston had written it down on a piece of paper

She had a comb, a white handkerchief, and a broken piece of looking-glass

He cut a piece of leather from the boot with a knife

The inspector saw a piece of muslin and two small combs that the murderer had put near her feet

She had a fight with a woman about a piece of soap and got a black eye

This time he saw a piece of bloodstained apron in an open doorway

Near the piece of material, in white chalk on the wall, was a message:

The piece of bloodstained apron fitted exactly into a missing section of the victim's apron

He threw the piece of apron, wet with blood, in the doorway and wrote the message

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

He lived at the Victoria Home, a workingmen's lodging house in Commercial Street, right in the middle of the murder area, and very near Goulston Street, where the piece of Eddowes's apron was found

'I've slept for nineteen years on a piece of wood

'My piece of silver! My coin!'

Picking up a pen that lay on the table, she wrote on a piece of paper, Be careful! The police are coming! She showed Marius her work and then, changing the subject quickly, for no reason at all, she gazed into his eyes and said shyly, 'Do you know, M

Marius took a five-franc piece from his pocket and handed it to the girl.

'Excellent,' her father smiled, tearing a piece off his shirt and using it as a bandage

On top of the cupboard, by his feet, he noticed the piece of paper that the elder daughter had written on: Be careful! The police are coming!

He took a piece of brick from the wall, wrapped the piece of paper around it and threw it through the hole into the middle of Thenardier's room.

She picked up the piece of paper and handed it to her husband, who read it quickly.

All he had in the world was the five-franc piece he intended to give her father in prison

He found two objects in Marius's clothing: a piece of bread and a wallet

Give me half of what you found in this man's pockets, and I'll unlock the gate for you.' He produced a large key from his pocket, and a piece of rope

'Look, I have a piece of cloth from the dead man's coat as proof.'

He produced a muddy piece of cloth and showed it to Marius, who immediately went pale and rose unsteadily to his feet

I try to remember the image, and I see that there is a piece of cloth in her mouth so that she cannot speak and that she is tied to a large grey stone by thick white ropes.

I found the piece of paper and looked at it quickly.

I took a piece of paper and a pen.

I cut a piece of string for Jasper and went out of the cottage

I gave Jasper a piece of cake and took out the handkerchief to wipe my hands

She was holding a piece of paper in her hand

Favell took a piece of paper from his pocket

I have written it here.' And Frank held out a piece of paper.

That piece of paper was enough to hang Maxim.

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

A five-piece band hammered out wildly amplified pop music from the small stage in the open cocktail lounge beyond and slightly above the slot machines

An eighteen-piece orchestra performed at the rear of the gaily-striped canvas structure

It was a dirty piece of business right from the start."

He showed us a small, half-burnt piece of paper

The police laboratory at Lyons reported that Andre's head had been wrapped in a piece of velvet when it was smashed by the hammer

'Hello - what's this?' He held up a piece of notepaper.

A large piece suddenly came off with a sharp noise that brought his heart into his mouth

My terror had fallen from me like a piece of clothing

Then he crossed the room and began to dress, running with each piece of clothing to the window in order to miss nothing of the growing excitement

And over the blue hills to the south of the river, the Martians moved backwards and forwards, calmly spreading their poison clouds over one piece of country and then over another

You get a piece of paper, J, and you get a pencil, George

Harris said, 'George! Why can't George be here to do some work? Why doesn't he help us with this heavy boat? What does he do at the bank? He sits behind a piece of glass all day and does nothing

I tried to open it with a piece of metal

I started hitting the tin with a piece of wood

The man gave the policeman a piece of paper

She dug in the earth under the word and found a piece of paper