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Example sentences for "four pieces"

  • The Gable-End= is made in four pieces, as shown in Fig.

  • A Fireplace= must be provided for the living-room, and one easily constructed out of four pieces of wood is shown in Figs.

  • There it was met by an English ship which mounted twenty-four pieces, many carrying balls of sixteen libras.

  • Four pieces of wood or four small reels are glued to the corners of the floor to prevent the wire axle from touching the ground.

  • Four pieces of stout cane are pushed into holes in the top piece of cardboard, and the bottom of each piece of cane is split so that it holds a horse cut out of paper.

  • Averill pursued from Chambersburg, and surprised and routed Johnson's brigade, and caused a loss of four pieces of artillery and about three hundred prisoners from the whole command.

  • Eight hundred prisoners, four pieces of artillery, and some wagons and horses were brought off.

  • The heavy masses moved forward, being opposed only by four pieces of artillery, supported by a few hundred of our men belonging to different brigades rallied by Hill and other officers, and parts of Walker's and B.

  • These flat rings consist of four pieces, which are joined by means of vertical bars, that carry a species of ears or rings, into which the hoops enter, and are retained by bolts or keys.

  • On the 27th the enemy was driven from his intrenched position, with the loss of four pieces of artillery.

  • Our cavalry, having pushed on and got in the rear of the Confederates, captured twenty-four pieces of artillery, besides retaking what had been lost in the morning.

  • The regiment, or a portion of it, proceeded to the left, down the ridge, for nearly or quite a quarter of a mile capturing three or four pieces of cannon, driving the gunners from them.

  • Boil six artichokes in water and salt until quite tender, take the leaves off and trim the bottom until all the hard part is off and the artichoke has a round appearance; cut each in four pieces, put them in a good demi-glace (No.

  • Having fixed on the wheel, fasten the transparent star to four pieces of wire.

  • A face may be painted on oiled paper, or Persian silk, put over a hoop, and supported by three or four pieces of wire at six inches distance from the wheel in the centre.

  • The illuminated double cone-wheel is nothing more than a double cone, formed of a number of hoops, and supported by three or four pieces of wood, in the manner of the spiral wheels.

  • They are all different, and are formed as follows: On four pieces of thick card (No.

  • This may consist either of a sort of fishing-rod of four pieces, or a jointed rod made to fold up by hinges on the same principle as a pocket foot-rule, so that the joints bend in one direction, but are stiff in the other.

  • They must be made of four pieces of brass wire a quarter of an inch thick.

  • Four pieces of either sheet iron or brass are wanted in each support an inch and a half long by a quarter wide.

  • Four pieces like d will give a hollow square, in which may be fitted a piece of fancy wood such as rosewood, snake wood, satinwood, or some other South American wood.

  • It consists of four pieces, a back, two brackets, and the roller.

  • The body of the trestle was built up of four pieces, two long and two short ones.

  • The fragments of the tract are in four pieces, but they were printed in one form of eight pages, and by one impression.

  • Notices of a Press and of a Mysterious Tool of Four Pieces .

  • But there is an infinite number of different ways of making the cuts to solve the puzzle in four pieces.

  • If, on the other hand, the solution is to be exact, then there will be four pieces--or six pieces in all.

  • It may be placed, for example, at point e to give a solution in four pieces.

  • Canterbury Puzzles"), no geometrician would have had any difficulty in doing what is required in five pieces: the whole point of the discovery lay in performing the little feat in four pieces only.

  • Take a fowl, two onions, two carrots, and two turnips; put one onion into the fowl, and cut all the rest into four pieces each.

  • Four pieces of wire are then prepared, of the thickness proportionate to the size of the bird to be stuffed.

  • Four pieces of wire, about the thickness of a crow-quill, are then taken, which must be the length of the legs, and another piece a foot or fifteen inches longer than the body.

  • Hanson, to which were temporarily attached Byrne's battery of four pieces, and one company of Tennessee cavalry, was pushed on to Munfordsville on Green river.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "four pieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four battalions; four centuries; four degrees; four dimensions; four fathoms; four generations; four inches; four million; four millions; four nights; four quarters; four sides; four slices; four small; four syllables; four tablespoonfuls; four tablespoons; four times; fourteen inches; fourteen miles; fourteenth century; fourth dimension; fourth inches; fourth year; poor mistress; reached home