piece

Example Sentences

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It was a piece of personal history, perhaps one with generational memories.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

But as Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, notes, “corporate profits are just one piece of the economic pie, and S&P 500 earnings are a relatively narrow and partial measure.”

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Maybe it lessens the phantom pain of not having that piece of himself on his shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

‘Who knows? But maybe -it was another kind of test? Not whether you could find the third piece of the Nanuak. But whether you could risk it for a friend.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver