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Example sentences for "three pieces"

  • Michael Angelo said, however, and it has since been proved, that it is in three pieces.

  • The altar on which the sacrifices were made was found near the two square pilasters in the passage outside, and a statue of Mithras was found in three pieces.

  • In such cases six pieces are necessary, and if triangle and square are of equal area there is an obvious solution in three pieces, by simply cutting the square in half diagonally.

  • It is, therefore, not a solution in three pieces.

  • Then, before cutting the steps, our rectangle in three pieces will be 84 × 63.

  • In the case where n equals 1, the rectangle disappears and we get a solution in three pieces.

  • It will be easier to make this mace in three pieces, the octagonal head in one piece and the handle in two parts, so that the circular shield shown at the lower end of the handle can be easily placed between the parts.

  • This contrivance should be made of wood, the helmet to be modeled in three pieces, the skullcap, peak and lobster shell neck guard in one piece, and the ear guards in two pieces, one for each side.

  • The vise consists of three pieces of wood, two for the jaws and one a wedge.

  • The shoeblack is cut out in three pieces.

  • Illustration: A Bamboo Pole Cut in Three Pieces Makes a Window-Shade Stick, Duster Holder and Clothesline Pole (Fig.

  • Three pieces of wood were nailed to the under side of the door in such positions that they formed a recess in which a fourth piece, 2 in.

  • Illustration: The Swing of the Hurdle will Turn When Slightly Touched and Right Itself Again] Each standard is made of three pieces of wood, 7/8 in.

  • Have ready a pan of hot lard, put in a spoonful of the batter, lay on the top two or three pieces of the clams, then cover them with a little more of the batter.

  • The round squashes may be cooked whole, but the long ones must be cut in two or three pieces, according to the size of the vessel they are to be cooked in.

  • A, three pieces like B, and one key piece as C.

  • The puzzle is composed of three pieces of wood, each 4 ins.

  • The centre portion is an example of three pieces half-lapped or, as it is sometimes called, one-third lapped.

  • Seventy-three pieces of artillery, about thirteen thousand small-arms, and a large quantity of military stores fell into our hands.

  • It is made of fine summer doe-reindeer skin, in three pieces, back and two sides of dark skin, sewed to a collar of white skin from the belly of the animal.

  • These ends are fastened into a handle of walrus ivory, consisting of three pieces, namely: a pair of neatly carved mittens, respectively 1.

  • The interior surface of each cell consists of three pieces of leaf, of equal size, narrow at one end, but gradually widening at the other, where the width equals half the length.

  • Reaumur further remarks, that the base of each cell, instead of forming a plane, is usually composed of three pieces in the shape of the diamonds on playing cards, and placed in such a manner as to form a hollow pyramid.

  • It is well to have two or three pieces in the process of construction at the same time.

  • As to their dress, it resembles that represented in the Buddha's images, and ought to consist of three pieces of cloth stained yellow or of a dull yellowish colour.

  • Their dress usually consists of three pieces of yellow cotton cloth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three 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:
    three bays; three distinct; three divisions; three equal vertical bands; three fathom; three fingers; three fourths; three frigates; three horizontal; three hundred and fifty; three members; three pairs; three persons; three regiments; three rooms; three seconds; three sides; three sons; three squadrons; three stories; three successive; three things; three turns; three types; three words; tout cela