How to Use jigsaw in a Sentence

jigsaw

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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
• The sound of circular saws, jigsaws, and drills filled the air.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Cut the handle’s curve with a jigsaw and wood-cutting blade.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
• Use a jigsaw and simply saw from hole to hole to cut the handle opening to shape.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
• Cut out with a jigsaw, using a straightedge as a guide.
  — Ted Kilcommons, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2020
• 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
• The jigsaw has a thin, rectangular blade that moves up and down.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• With that final piece of the jigsaw came a sense of identity to the national team.
  — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Cut the lattice to length using a fine-tooth metal-cutting blade in a jigsaw.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The other issue is fitting a Wiggins-size jigsaw piece back into the team puzzle.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
• Coach Bruce Boudreau’s Minnesota Wild lineup might as well be a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Instead, the Kurds ended up within the borders of five other nations, a tapestry cut by a jigsaw.
  — Time, 14 Nov. 2019
• The former Lyon man is the final piece in Mauricio Pochettino's jigsaw.
  — SI.com, 22 July 2019
• Nevertheless, deep learning looks set to be another piece of the AI jigsaw.
  — Toby Walsh, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
• 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
• 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
• Cut decorative rafters and rafter tails using a pattern and jigsaw.
  — Katie Leporte, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2021
• 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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jigsaw

2 of 2 adjective

• 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
• The doors leading to the first-floor bathroom form a jigsaw puzzle of thin metal.
  — Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
• Cut the resulting parabola out with a jigsaw to form the mouth of your bootjack.
  — Teddy Boxberger, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her friends remember an enthusiastic, card-playing traveler who loved animals and jigsaw puzzles.
  — Sylviane Gold, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• 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
• The doors leading to the first-floor bathroom form a jigsaw puzzle of thin metal.
  — Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
• Cut the resulting parabola out with a jigsaw to form the mouth of your bootjack.
  — Teddy Boxberger, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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