bits and pieces

plural noun

1

: small pieces

There were broken bits and pieces of glass all over the floor.

I finished the project in bits and pieces during my spare time.

2

: things or objects of different kinds

There are just a few bits and pieces of furniture in the office.

No one knows exactly what happened. All we have is a few bits and pieces of information so far.

Examples of bits and pieces in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fagan, who died in 1969, wrote about his prank repeatedly in his column, which was called Mill Ends—named for the bits and pieces of wood left over at a lumber mill. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025

With the exception of 1980’s Drama – a giddy experiment in proggy new wave – the band’s remaining LPs to date sound like the remains of a shipwreck: a futile attempt to salvage bits and pieces from the old days. —Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025

This was an actor with a marvelous, pliable face, not necessarily movie-star handsome but made up of bits and pieces of star quality: the cleft chin, the ready smile, the slightly doughy nose that somehow made his face look comically regal. —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025

Parts of this story have been told before, in bits and pieces, in broader works about the Civil War or emancipation or the march itself. —Scott Spillman, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025

Rhymes for bits and pieces

• dentifrices
• frontispieces
• masterpieces
• caprices
• decreases
• eyepieces
• increases
• mouthpieces
• polices
• releases
• timepieces
• varices