How to Use jigsaw in a Sentence
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Use a jigsaw to cut out the front door and the spaces between the slats that will form the vent in the back.
—Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
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Use a handsaw or jigsaw to cut through the last bit of wood to free the waste piece.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2020
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The sound of circular saws, jigsaws, and drills filled the air.
—Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
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Mark the curved sides with a pencil, and use a coping saw or jigsaw to cut the curves.
—James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2017
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Cut the handle’s curve with a jigsaw and wood-cutting blade.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
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Use a jigsaw and simply saw from hole to hole to cut the handle opening to shape.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
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Cut out with a jigsaw, using a straightedge as a guide.
—Ted Kilcommons, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2020
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Cut the notches with a dado blade in the table saw, or lay out each notch and use a jigsaw to remove the waste.
—Rick Peters, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2016
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The jigsaw has a thin, rectangular blade that moves up and down.
—Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2023
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The inside of the van was splattered with blood, and a chainsaw and jigsaw were soaking in water.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 May 2018
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With that final piece of the jigsaw came a sense of identity to the national team.
—SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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Cut the lattice to length using a fine-tooth metal-cutting blade in a jigsaw.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2021
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When using a jigsaw, wear closed-toe footwear, long pants, a long-sleeve shirt, safety glasses, gloves, a mask, and earplugs.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2022
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Cut the opening for a clamp head using a holesaw, then use a jigsaw to make a flat surface parallel to the sides.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2021
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Cut it out with a jigsaw [b], then freehand drill the thumbhole at a shallow angle with a 7⁄16-inch paddle bit.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
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For one wall, Mr. Stadtländer used a jigsaw to cut wavy-edged panels from elm wood, also from his forest.
—Nancy Matsumoto, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
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The shapes are cut with a jigsaw and computerized router, sanded by hand, and then finished with shellac.
—Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
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The Fillebrown House, for example, would have taken 20 hours to cut out by jigsaw to make just one replica before the turn of the century.
—Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2019
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The other issue is fitting a Wiggins-size jigsaw piece back into the team puzzle.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
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Coach Bruce Boudreau’s Minnesota Wild lineup might as well be a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
—Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2017
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Jenna Sue made the valance over the shower area in under 30 minutes using a jigsaw and reclaimed wood left over from another project.
—Lauren Matthews, Country Living, 15 May 2015
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By filling in one piece of the jigsaw, the book will—like the memoirs of Holocaust survivors—help future readers understand the bigger picture.
—The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
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Arsenal are planning a major revamp of their defence this summer and will hope to make Ajax youngster Matthijs de Ligt the first piece of the jigsaw.
—SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
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Instead, the Kurds ended up within the borders of five other nations, a tapestry cut by a jigsaw.
—Time, 14 Nov. 2019
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The former Lyon man is the final piece in Mauricio Pochettino's jigsaw.
—SI.com, 22 July 2019
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Nevertheless, deep learning looks set to be another piece of the AI jigsaw.
—Toby Walsh, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
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Adding to this, the furniture has a playful feel, from the wardrobes with their ‘jigsaw’ doors to the bathroom vanities, made by Lava in France, with large mirrors in walnut and lacquer.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Unlike at previous Tours won with knock-out blows in the high peaks, this victory had to be pieced together bit-by-bit like a jigsaw puzzle.
—John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2017
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Cut decorative rafters and rafter tails using a pattern and jigsaw.
—Katie Leporte, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2021
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Celebrate the day by pulling out a favorite jigsaw, or trying a crossword, Sudoku or brain teaser.
—Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
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There the second wife does jigsaw puzzles in the vast living room and grows to hate him.
—Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2017
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The doors leading to the first-floor bathroom form a jigsaw puzzle of thin metal.
—Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
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Cut the resulting parabola out with a jigsaw to form the mouth of your bootjack.
—Teddy Boxberger, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
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What next for the big jobs jigsaw? Mr Weber is not yet entirely out of the running but his prospects look poor.
—Charlemagne | Brussels, The Economist, 21 June 2019
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The cloth is cut into jigsaw-like pieces that’ll eventually become jeans, and then left to sit overnight so the fabric can shrink to the right size.
—Tara Lamont-Djite, Marie Claire, 2 May 2018
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The final big piece of the friendly jigsaw puzzle was a bit of schedule juggling by FC Cincinnati.
—Patrick Brennan, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2017
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All of the sadness and dejection that the West Germans caused back in '82 had been washed away by the final piece of the jigsaw slotting in seamlessly.
—SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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One of the biggest inquiries had to do with the fact that poverty tax exemptions — while a piece of the tax foreclosures jigsaw — are not retroactive.
—Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
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The face puzzle, a box of wooden jigsaw pieces, looks like a child’s game, a primitive, flattened-out version of Mr. Potato Head.
—Adam Cohen, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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In her room, plastic bins of clothes are stuffed to the brim and stored under her bed; pink and white little girls' dresses hang on closet doors, price tags still on; wardrobes are filled with 100-piece jigsaw puzzles and children's books.
—Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
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The Red Wings hockey ice will remain on the floor, with the Pistons basketball court installed on top of it jigsaw fashion, easily installed and removed.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2017
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The living room has a bookshelf full of Russian language guides, DVDs, astronaut jigsaw puzzles, and board games, which are perfect for a wild night on the mountain with your five favorite roommates.
—Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
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What’s good is exceptional—a meeting of minds, and then more, between two jigsaw-puzzle prodigies—while the rest is perfunctory or lifeless.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 July 2018
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That Chelsea Manning, who lived for seven years in punitive and inhumane conditions, had found some hope, some comfort, by pondering the beauty of a Dior jacket or the hideousness of jigsaw print leggings?
—Sally Singer, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
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There are dedicated people with cumulative decades of experience—and panache for geeky math—who are juggling demands from many different corners, and who work to optimize a schedule that makes the jigsaw pieces fit.
—Allison Hope, CNT, 18 Aug. 2017
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Items reported stolen included nail guns, a chainsaw, router table, power saw, reciprocating saw, jigsaw, saber saw, folding table, lock jaw table, hand planer, drill and pneumatic wrench.
—Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
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Her friends remember an enthusiastic, card-playing traveler who loved animals and jigsaw puzzles.
—Sylviane Gold, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
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There the second wife does jigsaw puzzles in the vast living room and grows to hate him.
—Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2017
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The doors leading to the first-floor bathroom form a jigsaw puzzle of thin metal.
—Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
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Cut the resulting parabola out with a jigsaw to form the mouth of your bootjack.
—Teddy Boxberger, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
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What next for the big jobs jigsaw? Mr Weber is not yet entirely out of the running but his prospects look poor.
—Charlemagne | Brussels, The Economist, 21 June 2019
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The cloth is cut into jigsaw-like pieces that’ll eventually become jeans, and then left to sit overnight so the fabric can shrink to the right size.
—Tara Lamont-Djite, Marie Claire, 2 May 2018
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The final big piece of the friendly jigsaw puzzle was a bit of schedule juggling by FC Cincinnati.
—Patrick Brennan, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2017
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All of the sadness and dejection that the West Germans caused back in '82 had been washed away by the final piece of the jigsaw slotting in seamlessly.
—SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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One of the biggest inquiries had to do with the fact that poverty tax exemptions — while a piece of the tax foreclosures jigsaw — are not retroactive.
—Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
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The face puzzle, a box of wooden jigsaw pieces, looks like a child’s game, a primitive, flattened-out version of Mr. Potato Head.
—Adam Cohen, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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In her room, plastic bins of clothes are stuffed to the brim and stored under her bed; pink and white little girls' dresses hang on closet doors, price tags still on; wardrobes are filled with 100-piece jigsaw puzzles and children's books.
—Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
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The Red Wings hockey ice will remain on the floor, with the Pistons basketball court installed on top of it jigsaw fashion, easily installed and removed.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2017
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The living room has a bookshelf full of Russian language guides, DVDs, astronaut jigsaw puzzles, and board games, which are perfect for a wild night on the mountain with your five favorite roommates.
—Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
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What’s good is exceptional—a meeting of minds, and then more, between two jigsaw-puzzle prodigies—while the rest is perfunctory or lifeless.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 July 2018
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