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Example sentences for "little piece"

  • Before the Ligature is drawn close with the Gripe-Stick, a little piece of Paste-board is to be put underneath, for fear of pinching the Skin.

  • And when they find that their odd little homes are becoming too small, they just cut off a little piece at the end and add a little piece on in front, rather larger in diameter.

  • And finally, after allowing the milk to run away, it pokes its hind claws, which are very slender indeed, through the opening and picks out the white fleshy part of the nut a little piece at a time.

  • If you ever catch one of these spiders, and keep it for awhile in a jar of water with a little piece of water-weed, you may see it spinning its wonderful nest, and filling it with air, perhaps half a dozen times a day.

  • They gave us corn-bread, and once in a while a little piece of meat.

  • Corn-bread, a little piece of meat, sometimes a little rice-soup, and sometimes a few beans.

  • My husband rents a little piece of land and us raise a corn crop and that's the way us do.

  • I saved till I bought a little piece of land for myself.

  • The journey was a small matter; only a little piece of disagreeableness that was well in keeping with her other meditations.

  • He unbuttoned his coat, and from a carefully contrived pocket under the arm drew out a little piece of wood of exactly the length and shape he had described.

  • At the same time will you let me give you a little piece of advice.

  • I gave you, at your own request--you will do me the justice to admit that--a little piece of advice.

  • Pilbury said nothing, but broke off a little piece of the peppermint- rock in a meditative manner, and drummed his feet on the floor.

  • Tipper was not pleased with this little piece of sarcasm.

  • Silk's little piece of pantomime had not had the effect the author intended.

  • If Tom had any idea of a landslide, it was a little piece of ground which could be thrown away in half a day's time; but the sight of a real landslide was what took his breath away.

  • When the articles had been paid for, Mr. Bolton took off his pin, wrapped it in a little piece of paper, and thrust it into one corner of the valise, then locked it and handed the key to Tom.

  • Take out the onion, add a little piece of butter, stir it up, and serve.

  • Next add sufficient milk to moisten them, and let them simmer gently till they are tender; then rub the whole through a wire sieve, add a little piece of butter, and serve with fried or toasted bread.

  • Put a quart of red haricot beans into soak overnight, and put a little piece of soda in the water to soften it.

  • Cut a little piece of iron the thickness and width of the key, 1/2 in.

  • Rub out file marks with a little piece of emery cloth.

  • Bind the two ends with binding wire, wash with borax, put a little piece of silver on the inside and heat over the bunsen burner; which is hot enough for this kind of work.

  • Out in the lake is a little piece of land round which the waters play.

  • Such a little piece of land is called an island.

  • An island is a little piece of land surrounded by water.

  • An elegant use of foliage and grace and a little piece of white cloth and oil.

  • A kind of green a game in green and nothing flat nothing quite flat and more round, nothing a particular color strangely, nothing breaking the losing of no little piece.

  • Cover up cover up the two with a little piece of string and hope rose and green, green.

  • A fly settles and leaves a little piece of braised skin, the men rub that little place with sand, it widens and widens, they rub in more sand, the sun and the flies do the rest.

  • The good-will of this archimillionnaire might have been more valuable to him than a little piece of the land, had he offered it frankly as his cousin's share.

  • Hung by a little piece of shabby ribbon from her throat he saw a small gold object.

  • Sew it on the inside to the bonnet edge, leaving a little piece of the edge above the gathered piece.

  • When you have all the pieces cut out in the material, take the yoke portions of the pattern and cut them out again from a little piece of nainsook or something that will do to make a lining.

  • With a little piece of thread, fasten off very neatly on the wrong side, sticking the hook in the middle of one of the strips before finishing off, to make it quite firm.

  • A little piece of double feather-stitching has been separately worked for you to see how it is done.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    amicable settlement; little anxiously; little before his death; little bit; little brown; little celery; little difficulty; little drop; little exclamation; little fire; little flour; little groups; little light; little missie; little need; little north; little orange; little remarkable; little round; little sadly; little square; little thing; little thought; little troubled; little valley; swung himself