Segment or shard

Usage examples of piece.

Then at last scraps of weed appeared to him, and then pieces of wood, abob in the water.

Blood came up in front of Abies and took a piece of paper out of his coat pocket.

But if these muons are not sitting at rest in the laboratory and instead are traveling through a piece of equipment known as a particle accelerator that boosts them to just shy of light-speed, their average life expectancy as measured by scientists in the laboratory increases dramatically.

If this fails, the finger is wiped off with a piece of cloth which has been saturated with alcohol, benzine or acetone, after which it may be inked and printed.

I must now acquaint you with a piece of news, which, I believe, will afflict my friends more than it hath afflicted me.

The piece was written with great acrimony, and abounded with severe animadversions, not only upon the conduct of the returning officer, but also on the proceedings of the commons.

THE SHADOW folded the actinium powder in a small piece of paper that he found in the wastebasket.

Inside this strange house, looking for her missing piece, she feels intensely, acutely alive.

Imbs was practicing his complicated piece, the so-called adagio, and the machinist, with a manipulation of the black switch box, had turned off all the machines for the time required to go through the piece three times.

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.

Lord Ado sank to his knees and collapsed on the floor, she switched the two pieces of chain to one hand.

Lawson chewed a piece of adobo and washed this down with a swig of the vaguely bitter Cruz del Campo beer.

This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.

And continuity of message is also a vital piece of the advertising pie-from headline to body copy.

An innocent-looking piece of firewood set off a bundle of aerolite cartridges if anyone picked it up to put it in the stove.