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Example sentences for "large pieces"

  • Large pieces of the trunks of trees, three or four feet in length, and eight or ten inches in diameter, lay about the plain, and close to the road was an entire trunk of a tree at least twenty feet in length, half buried in sand.

  • It is sold in small or large pieces at a low price.

  • Ice should be broken in large pieces, and put in a canvas bag, and pounded fine with a mallet.

  • Either cut the leaves with a sharp knife, or tear them in large pieces.

  • Melt an ounce of butter in a stewpan, add a handful of sorrel cut in large pieces, a dozen sage leaves finely minced, five pounds of eels cut in pieces, and seasoned with pepper and salt.

  • The sugar should be broken in large pieces, and just dipped in water, and added to the fruit over a slow fire.

  • Take off the skin, and pull the flesh off the bones of a cold fowl, in large pieces.

  • To prepare venison for pasty, take out all the bones, beat and season the meat, and lay it into a stone jar in large pieces.

  • Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heels of the lower futtocks.

  • Large pieces of timber in launching, the lower ends of which are fixed to the bilge-ways, and the upper ends fayed and bolted to the ship's bottom for additional security.

  • Large pieces of hard wood with a hole in the centre, shod with iron collars, and fastened between two stanchions in large ships, for the moorings to pass through.

  • The crowding of large pieces at the farthest point diminishes the apparent size of the room.

  • Large pieces of drift-wood gave us assurance that we had finally escaped from the bays.

  • Our guides reported that they had found copper in large pieces in every part of this range, for two days' walk to the north-west, and that the Esquimaux come hither to search for it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large 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:
    five cases; general advance; large areas; large audience; large block; large calibre; large collection; large diameter; large dimensions; large estates; large eyes; large flocks; large forest; large groups; large letters; large party; large patch; large picture; large share; large space; large volume; largely grown; larger measure; larger number; larger size; sand and gravel aggregates