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Example sentences for "one piece"

  • It was made of one piece of the largest part of an elephant's tooth, turned and somewhat carved, having a hole through which to pass the hand.

  • The head and neck are made in one piece of cardboard (see illustration), and a piece of worsted forms the tail.

  • The rear gable is made in one piece, and is fastened in place permanently.

  • When the square end of one piece of wood butts or sets against another piece, the joint formed is known as a butt-joint.

  • Twelve inches on centres means that the distance from the centre of one piece to the centre of another is twelve inches.

  • Turn a narrow fold on one piece to the right side and on the other piece to the wrong side, slip one under the other and hem down the two edges as in the hemmed seam.

  • On one piece fold an eighth of an inch seam (or more, if necessary) to the right side of the cloth, and on the other piece fold an eighth of an inch seam to the wrong side.

  • The silk fiber is all in one piece, and about one thousand feet long.

  • This is one piece of the armour with which the Son of God was clothed, when he came into the world; and it is that against which nothing can prevail (Isa 49:17).

  • About the space of a month after, a very great storm came down upon me, which handled me twenty times worse than all I had met with before; it came stealing upon me, now by one piece, then by another.

  • In these views, A, is a wooden or metal handle pierced throughout its length; this handle of metal may be made in one piece, with the nut, and the conical ferrule.

  • Besides this expedient, each pair of cylinders have their slide frames for guiding the movements of the piston rods cast in one piece.

  • The big end may be made in one piece, because if it is possible to get the ball bearing on the crank-pins it will be easy to put the connecting rod in place.

  • The upper end of the connecting rod may be one piece, because the wrist pin can be introduced after it is in place between the bosses of the piston.

  • This is done in the evening; and next morning the water is drained off, and the several fibres adhere together in one piece.

  • The shaft and upper member of the base are of one piece of ninety feet long, and nine in diameter.

  • Paste one edge of each strip to each side of one piece of cardboard bellows, fold the strips across the centre (Fig.

  • Tissue-paper sail and mast cut in one piece.

  • Add soft clay to the joints and smooth until the whole seems to be of one piece.

  • The visor is of one piece, and works on a pivot, but in a few of the early specimens the pin and hinge arrangement of the older Italian examples is preserved, rendering it removable.

  • In process of time the subjugated Britons must have become completely Romanised as to arms, and accustomed to wear the helmet, greaves, and corselet, either of one piece or formed of smaller and more flexible plates or scales.

  • Some contractors found it more convenient to use ribs that were connected with each other by a skeleton framework only, and then to slip the lagging in, one piece at a time.

  • To mold the top of the basin two cone-shaped forms are used, an outer form made in one piece and an inner form made in sections.

  • Budell made use of movable forms and gallows frames to construct the curtain walls and columns in one piece.

  • A is the jaw, B a slotted shank, C the handle, all made in one piece.

  • If the base slide way A be capable of being traversed along the lathe shears S S by a separate motion, then the upper slide way and slide may be omitted, G and C being in one piece.

  • Getting it down in one piece, of course, was the reason why they gave Bannister the project to begin with.

  • Neither could fly the thing back, even if it did get down in one piece.

  • Harry, I'm not getting back down in one piece.

  • We were told that the bullet that killed Mr. Stanton Mowbray struck the very centre of the clock face and instantly welded together the hour, minute, and second hands, so that all revolved in one piece.

  • The roof had best be covered with canvas, put on as one piece (being sewed previously if necessary).

  • It is, also, popularly applied to straightening the edge of one piece only, as to "joint" the edge of a board.

  • When the halving is at the ends of the pieces or at the end of one piece (Fig.

  • If for a very small dog the ends, sides, floor, and sides of the roof can each be made of one piece, but ordinarily these parts will each be made of two or more pieces.

  • While saddle is the name applied to the hind quarters of lamb and mutton, this term, as used in the cooking of such meat, refers to the piece that consists of the two sides of the loin cut off in one piece.

  • When this is removed in one piece, it is, as in beef, called the tenderloin.

  • Cut through this joint, severing the second joint and leg in one piece.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one piece" 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:
    charge them; deeply interesting; district school; hired girl; one and; one but; one could; one direction; one else; one foot; one had; one half; one has; one hundred thousand dollars; one hundred years ago; one more; one night; one ounce; one pound; one thousand; one time; one which; one whom; quench fire; things seen; westerly course