How to use "pieces" in a sentence

The first thing he saw was two pieces of flesh on the bedside table

Valjean produced two five-franc pieces and gave them to the priest

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

At the foot of the smaller barricade, half-hidden by broken stones and pieces of wood, there was a hole in the road covered with an iron grille

Valjean tore pieces oft his own shirt and bandaged Marius's wounded shoulder as well as he could

In little pieces.

They can chop you up into little pieces," says Darwin, and Gerry thinks about Big Jones and the old factory on the Thames.

"Well, you can't chop me into little pieces, can you?" he says to the crocodile.

Let it chop you up into little pieces."

Your truck is in pieces

As he lies there shouting and screaming and trying to pull the pieces of shot from his skin, he looks up at the beautiful blue sky and green trees and magnificent forest.

It had taken years for Gran to make her garden because it was so difficult to find soil or plants, but she had made some soil with rotten vegetables and fruit, and slowly found bits and pieces here and there

Your mother is in a very unusual position, you know - Cham's dad only gets bits and pieces of work now and then

I lit a match and set fire to the pieces

The windows had pieces of wood over them

The ornament broke into many pieces

I found an envelope in a drawer and carefully put the pieces of china into it

'It's in hundreds of pieces.'

'What did you do with the pieces?' said Maxim.

'Find the pieces, Mrs Danvers

In the kitchen, she toasted two pieces of bread

She stooped, retrieved the pieces of the Electronic Battleship game, and returned them to the table.

Standing near the left proscenium pillar, out of the main flow of the party, they nibbled at pieces of cake, talking about Magyck! And then about the law, Charlie and Helen Mainway, Las Vegas real estate - and, by some circuitous route, superhero movies.

A poster of one of the movie monsters had been ripped apart; it hung from the wall in several pieces

Robert Scott furniture complemented by a few antique pieces, and richly textured Edward Fields carpets

Finally I took a few mementos, a dozen pieces by which I'll always remember her, and I moved out, sold the house, bought this one, and started decorating all over again."

From the date on its cover, she knew that the issue containing The Boy Who Was Not Dead couldn't be one of the first pieces in Danny's collection

My brother lay flat on his stomach across the conveyor line which carried the white-hot pieces of metal up to the hammer

The roof of the college was in pieces

Its head flashed and burst into a dozen broken pieces of red flesh and shining metal.

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

When, an hour later, a Martian walked down the river, there was nothing but broken pieces of boats in the water.

There was a crash of glass, the sound of falling walls, and then the ceiling fell down in pieces on our heads

With these it was taking pieces of metal out of the cylinder and laying them on the earth behind it

When I looked again, the busy building-machine had already put together several of the pieces of metal from inside the cylinder into a shape that was very like its own

Out of the top of it hung long, brown pieces of flesh, which the birds were tearing away.

At the sound of birds overhead I looked up at the enormous fighting-machine that would never fight again, at the pieces of red flesh that dropped down onto the overturned seats on the top of Primrose Hill.

Look in the hampers and take out all the pieces of old food