How To Use Jigsaw In A Sentence

The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
We spent all evening doing a 1000-piece jigsaw.
The important thing is the fun of four people(one thin person included)sitting around a card table, working a jigsaw puzzle.
Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.

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Finish the cutout with a sharp handsaw, jigsaw or reciprocating saw.
Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
The back panel was easier, since I will be making an acrylic motherboard tray with a square back panel, I just cut it out with my jigsaw.
Another piece of the jigsaw in the puzzle surrounding her whereabouts is the simultaneous disappearance of her pet miniature dachshund, Boris. The Sun
He needs a variety of power tools, drills, routers, circular saws, jigsaws and packets of blades.
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.
Jigsaw has locked a bunch of strangers in a spooky old house with nerve gas slowly killing them off.
We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
She was wound up, jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle.
Kit car replicas arrive as a confusing jigsaw of pieces which have to be bolted together, often in the family garage.
Most of the tiny bits of jigsaw on show here survived accidentally, cemented into the walls as rubble, dropped into coal bunkers and forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
As consciousness first dawns, the infant begins to grasp — in the form of individual items of experience — jigsaw pieces in what might be an immense jigsawed picture of the meaning of his existence, and of life itself. Religion is like a jigsaw: it makes a picture out of puzzling chaos
Sometimes these snippets of information have been the final piece of the jigsaw, which has enabled us to obtain a search warrant and make an arrest.
But when Frakture put these jigsaws together they didn't fit properly.
It turns out that they have been placed there by the Jigsaw Killer, a serial murderer rampaging through the unnamed city.
So, you could say I am having the best of my childhood now, buying bears, jigsaw puzzles, paper dolls and what have you.
His eyes drop, and he drifts with the wild ice ticking seaward down the Hudson, like the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle.
The reality is that childcare is mainly a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
One piece of the jigsaw is still missing.
Drawing, cutting with a jigsaw, mixing the enamel paint and painting the cutouts proved more difficult than the students had imagined.
Conspicuous lacunae indicate that key pieces of the jigsaw have been suppressed. The Times Literary Supplement
Sloughs jigsawed the landscape, water oozed and streamed from roadside rocks. Raymond Carver
Check the hardware store for an extra length metal cutting jigsaw blade.
Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.
This elegant edgy little piece of the interchange jigsaw has a glass roof supported by a pyramidal steel structure and profiled concrete columns.
Burnley boss Steve Cotterill is still looking for three pieces to complete his jigsaw puzzle.
Bore a starter hole for the blade well inside the line; and use a fine-tooth standard (up-cutting) jigsaw blade.
There had been their playroom, and in the large cupboard were games - draughts, chess, jigsaws, snakes and ladders and ludo. THE BLACK OPAL
We have a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces jumbled up.
A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.
Now it's a question of putting the jigsaw that has broken apart back together again.
It is like putting together a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces.
Only by delving through minutes in the county archives has the jigsaw been put together.
I don't have the patience to do jigsaw puzzles.
This is another piece in the jigsaw that will help us understand the biology of cancer.
Examples: 1. ( One snippet from a recent" intimate portrait" of the first lady: Mr Bush likes to spend his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles, one of which shows the face of his Scotch terrier, Barney.
Everyone is trying to build their story like a jigsaw puzzle. The Sun
Buying the club extra time for repayments is the last piece in the financial jigsaw according to the chairman.
Stuff is only useful when all the pieces to complete the jigsaw are assembled.
British archaeologists are enriched not impoverished if one of their colleagues from another country unearths a key bit of the jigsaw of an ancient civilisation.
Each employee receives ten days of training a year, as well as an in-house training and development programme called Jigsaw.
It is a giant jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
Now, as momentum picks up, vacant spots downtown are filling in, like a jigsaw puzzle falling into place.
No one put the jigsaw pieces together. Times, Sunday Times
Also you can play at papyrology, assembling the Rosetta jigsaw puzzle. Languagehat.com: CLASSICAL GOLDMINE.
Spread out all the pieces before you begin the jigsaw.
Use an X-ACTO Knife, utility knife or electric jigsaw and slowly insert the blade into the gourd.
An adjustable pivot sliding in a slotted length of angle iron that's attached to the table of your jigsaw, makes a handy fixture for cutting true discs.
Like a jigsaw puzzle, a successful hockey team consists of many pieces.
From the air the land would have looked like a jigsaw of angular green and brown shapes.
Unusually thin mullions span the tall space, turning it into a gigantic glass jigsaw puzzle recomposing the view.
He gets nothing other than the pleasure of putting all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together.
The last piece in the jigsaw recently saw nursing and midwifery move into new premises for the health and life sciences. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently she thinks it would be better if we simply commended them for completing a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
Use a jigsaw to crosscut the board adjacent to a joist.
I'll know that you and I and God and everything, ever, are all jumbled and jigsawed in ways none of us could imagine I'll Walk Through You
You can also use a circular saw, jigsaw or panel saw to do it.
You'll need a table saw or jigsaw, a sander, a drill press, and about three hours.
This is the area in which the government's reliance on an interlocking jigsaw of multiagency teams needs a radical review. Times, Sunday Times
For me, the article is an interesting piece of a jigsaw I'm assembling in my mind.
Now they can hopefully put the jigsaw back together. Times, Sunday Times
Jigsaw, the original baddie in this grisly horror series, is now dead. The Sun
It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle.
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.
If it does, it might be one of the pieces of the jigsaw to these puzzles.
We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
Now, the jigsaw of formal gardens and courtyards is dense with vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
You can explore glorious colour images of galaxies and the remnants of dying stars through an interactive jigsaw puzzle.
Natural light floods the museum through its jigsaw-shaped holes and skylights. A walkway and a cube-shaped gallery float above the lobby.
If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.
For these works, Cameron disassembles jigsaw puzzles and paints the constituent pieces according to the proportions of the color schemes of corporate logos.
When she's with the family, the jigsaw pieces fit together. The Sun
When people are playing euchre or assembling a jigsaw puzzle or listening to the radio, they say that they are passing the time. 52449_CLARA
Her jigsaw pieces are her computer files compiled for over six thousand individuals, the basis of her sophisticated cliometrics.
But the last part of the jigsaw is missing.
Yet somehow the jagged edges of this non-League jigsaw fitted together. Times, Sunday Times
Along the spine at the top was attached a vertical shape jigsawed from a wooden board. Bad Luck and Trouble
Entertainment industry: pen, stapler, inkpad, glue, correction liquid, poker, jigsaw puzzle, toy, artwork, etc.
He needed more, several important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle before trying to establish direct contact.
There are also certain types of tungsten-tipped circular saw and jigsaw blades available that will work with these products.
One piece of the jigsaw is still missing.
Some one who could put the circumstantial jigsaw puzzle together.
We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
Overhead the light streamed down through a jigsaw canopy of burgeoning foliage.
Excited archaeologists discovered the Loch Ness-style creature on the beach and have spent months piecing together a giant jigsaw composed of dozens of old bones to reveal the 12ft-long plesiosaur.
The houses interlocked like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and every window blazed with light.
A jigsaw puzzle is a picture which has been cut up into bits, and you must make the picture again.
Lee compares planning to putting together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
She said the study was'like putting together a massive jigsaw '. The Sun
If your new threshold is made of wood, use a backsaw or a jigsaw to cut it.
Overhead, a jigsaw puzzle of scalene triangles zigs and zags along the ceiling. New York, New York: A Library That Most Can Only Dream Of « ResourceShelf
But look down into them a few feet and a giant white jigsaw puzzle of bones emerges. Times, Sunday Times
Cut the templates by carefully sawing to your lines with a jigsaw or on the band saw, then fair and smooth the curves with a rasp and 150-grit sandpaper.
For straight cuts use a circular saw or a handsaw; for curves use a portable jigsaw.
It is nothing like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, one piece at a time, with little sense of urgency.
He needs a variety of power tools, drills, routers, circular saws, jigsaws and packets of blades.
His imagery has also been published extensively as fine art note cards, jigsaw puzzles, posers and book covers.
Yet somehow the jagged edges of this non-League jigsaw fitted together. Times, Sunday Times
After years of research, we have finally found the pieces we needed to put together the jigsaw. Times, Sunday Times
A five-hundred piece jigsaw puzzle and a digital clock radio are good finds for a dollar store.
The exercise is like putting together the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
Kit car replicas arrive as a confusing jigsaw of pieces which have to be bolted together, often in the family garage.
This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.
Today's Royal Bond Hurdle will go a long way towards sorting out the pecking order of the Cheltenham-bound novices and two further pieces in the jigsaw should be provided at Navan next month.
But for him and Mindy, they just kind of clicked easily, like two correct pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
She thought the contents of a Cornflakes box were a jigsaw puzzle of a hen.
Certainly, he didn't have the brain power to do a jigsaw or design a spaceship. The Sun
So the Old Town is a jigsaw of medieval buildings jutting out at odd angles around narrow cobbled lanes. The Sun
There has been no formal review of the inquiry - a process which could unearth a key piece of the jigsaw. The Sun
Cut out the drywall behind the baseboard with a jigsaw or drywall saw.
Behind the trim lawns and the net curtains, behind the jigsaw of decency, a number of houses have extremist posters in the windows.
The pieces of evidence fell into place with the unequivocal precision of a well-made jigsaw puzzle.
Families gardened and used their backyards more (the 1930s saw a renaissance in badminton); in the evenings they gathered around the radio, worked on jigsaw puzzles (another 1930s craze), played cards and, of course, Monopoly (an irony-heavy product of the Depression). Life In (and After) Our Great Recession
A jigsaw with a plaster-cutting blade will make the job easier, but be careful not to cut through existing cables hidden in the ceiling.
Oh, and how did we live so long without a 5-amp jigsaw with five blades?
Wrapping a single landscape around three walls, arranging the perspective so that foreground trees disappear into the ceiling-line, and even popping the foregrounded foliage out of the wall slightly by forming it out of painted, jigsawed pieces of pressboard, all seem attempts to create an illusion. Galleon trade edition
..reality "here" is made up of odds n' ends & snippets from 'someones' truth but how often does it all fit w/ our own jigsawed "reality" ? No Money Mo Problems: Involuntary Collabos
She fitted the last piece into the jigsaw puzzle.
Initiation in China, brand-new environmental protection material, delicate design and veriest three dimensional mimic jigsaw puzzles!
When people are playing euchre or assembling a jigsaw puzzle or listening to the radio, they say that they are passing the time. 52449_CLARA
The geometric shapes could be assembled on site by the builder, much like a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
This is not'the final piece in the jigsaw' of the peace process. Times, Sunday Times
The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place at Villa Park and it's a curious anomaly that whenever he has found the net we have always won.
A jigsaw with a fine-tooth blade may also be acceptable.
The pieces in the hangar are fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle.
They would have got far more on the open market and for that they undertook to crate it in new containers and ship it to Liverpool, which is how for us the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world started.
We used to have to think of the names of flowers as answers to puzzles, or to put together the pieces of a picture, like a jigsaw puzzle.
The final piece of this puzzling jigsaw is Linda's gym assistant Chad Feldheimer, played by Pitt with a blithe goofball goodness.
Quotes: Jigsaw: Hello, America. Do you wanna play a game?
In putting a jigsaw puzzle together he may move the pieces around to improve his chances of finding a fit.
This box's contours are also unevenly matched and fit together like warped pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
They are made of continental rather than oceanic rock, and seem to be a small part of the jigsaw puzzle of continental drift rather than genuine oceanic islands.
Goodwin describes the process as being akin to working on a jigsaw.
Nine different crews then delivered these parts into space where the giant jigsaw puzzle was pieced together.
Generally, use a handsaw or a circular saw to cut straight lines, a coping saw or a portable jigsaw to cut irregular lines.
Use a jigsaw to crosscut the board adjacent to a joist.
Tools required include only a circular saw, a jigsaw, and a router.
There are many pieces in the jigsaw which are still missing.
We're constantly putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Christianity Today
Instead, the candidates have to put together a jigsaw puzzle of states, bagging their votes in the electoral college.
We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
To create "Arch," a rock and steel structure on the boardwalk at Redondo Beach in Seattle, John dynamited and fractured a 40-ton slab of solid rock then reassembled it intentionally leaving a few parts out like a jigsaw puzzle. Darby Roach: Sculptor John T. Young, Turning Swords into Plowshares
Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.
For straight cuts use a circular saw or a handsaw; for curves use a portable jigsaw.
They dig for juicy details as adroitly as they do the crossword and jigsaw puzzles that they plug away at.
If the only thing they had to worry about was putting a jigsaw back together, they would probably be quite happy. Times, Sunday Times
Dress children up in paper which has wavy lines drawn on it to seem like a jigsaw puzzle.
Proteins are like jigsaw puzzle pieces that are designed to fit together.
Finish the cutout with a sharp handsaw, jigsaw or reciprocating saw.
The deal also reignited enthusiasm for stocks that could play a part in the tech sector consolidation jigsaw. Times, Sunday Times
This jigsaw puzzle has 1000 interlocking pieces.
The child may then have problems with steps, climbing or with puzzles like jigsaws.
As Mr. Pryor said, he nailed the pathway and completed the jigsaw.
This is another piece in the jigsaw that will help us understand the biology of cancer.
They are huge dance personalities and go together like jigsaw pieces.
Piecing together this complicated jigsaw, a picture emerges, of a regime in crisis.
I suppose it had jigsaw work on the porch banisters?
But the most useful piece in the jigsaw is an eyewitness account. The Sun
You know you have solved a good jigsaw when all the pieces fit together.
Since albuminuria is a known risk factor for heart disease and hypertension, these findings help piece together the jigsaw.
For this you will need a hacksaw or a jigsaw with a hacksaw blade.
Narratives were assembled like jigsaws with pieces missing.
Nine different crews then delivered these parts into space where the giant jigsaw puzzle was pieced together.
Now they can hopefully put the jigsaw back together. Times, Sunday Times
We like to go for long walks, enjoy wonderful meals and do jigsaw puzzles while listening to the radio and looking at the sea.
But this is the only factor absent from this prophetical jigsaw.
Get the whole family together to work a giant jigsaw puzzle together.
So that was the kind of magic last piece of the jigsaw that made it possible.
The scene is then printed block by block, with layers of color filling in the image like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
For this you will need a hacksaw or a jigsaw with a hacksaw blade.
The process is similar to doing a jigsaw puzzle, but without a clear pattern on each piece.
Most of the tiny bits of jigsaw on show here survived accidentally, cemented into the walls as rubble, dropped into coal bunkers and forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
The playground is now a more pleasant and interesting place for the children with grid games, such as hopscotch, jigsaws, target games and three chessboards with draught pieces.
He's about to replace a blade on the jigsaw when he hears someone shuffling up the gravel road.
The jigsaw fairy lights appeared ephemeral; the dark, immemorial and timeless.
Mr Mipchin was sitting over a coffee-table on which was a half-finished jigsaw puzzle, apparently of a vast cornfield in Upper Silesia. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Similarly, I could get into crosswords but not jigsaws.
Time crept as slowly as the shadow on a sundial and my precious dreams were jigsawed around me.
They fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, no one piece like the other. Times, Sunday Times
And the majority of changes relate to content, more time-consuming and frustrating than an all-red jigsaw puzzle.
One could be forgiven for thinking that all the haste in ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon has been to ensure that particular piece of the jigsaw falls neatly into place. Archive 2008-02-10
The limestone is produced in special moulds and can be fitted together like a jigsaw to form any configuration.
Brian likes to play with the jigsaws and the choo-choo at school.
So, at long last, the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place.
Your jigsaw puzzles and games are all mixed up together in that box. Shall we sort them out?
In the early 1960s, as Africa broke free from European colonialism, liberation figures like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah or Kenya' Jomo Kenyatta imagined forming this continent jigsawed by colonial borders into a single world power: the United States of Africa. West Africa's Central Bank Governor Promotes Single Currency
Now, as momentum picks up, vacant spots downtown are filling in, like a jigsaw puzzle falling into place.
This was the final crooked piece in Blunt's complex jigsaw. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
The geometric shapes could be assembled on site by the builder, much like a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.
You can explore glorious colour images of galaxies and the remnants of dying stars through an interactive jigsaw puzzle.
Families gardened and used their backyards more (the 1930s saw a renaissance in badminton); in the evenings they gathered around the radio, worked on jigsaw puzzles (another 1930s craze), played cards and, of course, Monopoly (an irony-heavy product of the Depression). Life In (and After) Our Great Recession
This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.
It takes just one piece of the jigsaw and turns it into a compelling, documentary-style drama that dispenses with moral judgments in an attempt to arrive at some uncomfortable truths.
It has paintings, jigsaw puzzles, a maze, skill games and more.

How To Use Jigsaw In A Sentence

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