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Example sentences for "great piece"

  • It will be a great piece of luck if I have found the right person at the first attempt.

  • Another editor liked "The Hearer of Truth"; another editor said that it was a great piece of literature, and that he would surely use it!

  • It is a great piece of water by my dwelling," said the Fox.

  • Hansel thought the roof tasted very nice, and so he tore off a great piece; while Grethel broke a large round pane out of the window, and sat down quite contentedly.

  • Details of these estimates are as follows: Estimate of cost of Great Piece Reservoir, dam at Little Falls.

  • When the highland tributaries are sufficiently checked the natural storage on Great Piece Meadow in its effect upon flood control becomes more apparent.

  • But I had scarcely shut my eyes, when something that fell by me with a great noise awakened me, and this was a great piece of fresh meat; at the same time I saw several others fall down from the rocks in different places.

  • And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a great piece of news.

  • A goblin lived with the huckster, because at Christmas he always had a large dish full of jam, with a great piece of butter in the middle.

  • But everybody said it was a great piece of good fortune for the young fellow.

  • Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino, where that unhappy man was to be starved to death; and there was great laughter among the audience.

  • He, out of emulation, and a constant eagerness which possessed him to outdo one of the other chiefs of his country, promised a great piece of service to Mithridates, no less than the death of Lucullus.

  • I must tell you a great piece of refinement[44] of Harley.

  • It was a great piece of good fortune that we had such an experienced surgeon as Willis with us.

  • I took care to inform them of our opinion that it was a great piece of ingratitude on their part to treat us in so inhospitable a manner after we had thrashed their enemy for them.

  • Nevertheless, they had no wish to come to Ozaka, and thought it a great piece of luck that the English Minister had proposed to the Tycoon's people what they themselves happened to desire most particularly.

  • Then the boy went on his way and walked for many days, and at last he came to a great piece of water by the side of which stood an old woman fishing.

  • When they had walked for two hours, they came to a great piece of water.

  • Then said she to Maid Maleen, "A great piece of luck has befallen thee.

  • This last was on receiving a great piece of Aunt Georgie's freshly-made bread, which kept him busily occupied for some little time.

  • He had heard a great piece of news through the stove-pipe hole in the ceiling of the little bedroom.

  • But he had the gift of speech, and if he merely said "Two and two are four" it was uttered in such a manner as to seem like a great piece of news, and made people wonder at the knowledge of the man.

  • And Empty will have a great piece of news to tell, won't he?

  • Agias had actually come upon what he was right in considering a great piece of good fortune.

  • Gabinius was planning a great piece of finesse.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great 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:
    great artist; great ascetic; great blow; great builder; great celebrity; great crime; great deeds; great degree; great difference; great distance; great emotion; great enough; great fancy; great fault; great houses; great impression; great lake; great military; great pomp; great shame; great tournament; great wave; greater degree; greater pleasure; greater quantity; greatly obliged