in pieces
Frequency: 8.015.0 per million words
Describes the state of being broken into many parts.
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Examples (10)
- The vase was now in pieces on the kitchen floor.
- After the crash, the entire front of the car was in pieces.
- His carefully crafted argument fell in pieces during the debate.
- She felt her dreams were in pieces after the rejection letter.
- The intricate mechanism lay in pieces on the workbench.
- The old wall crumbled in pieces after years of neglect.
- He tried to put his life back together after it had been torn in pieces.
- The evidence for the case was scattered in pieces across the crime scene.
- With one swing, the wooden door was knocked in pieces.
- The company's reputation was left in pieces after the scandal.