How to Use piece of the puzzle in a Sentence

piece of the puzzle

noun phrase
  • Watch out New York Times: Apple wants a piece of the puzzle pie.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And the Matthew Goode aspect was also a very movable piece of the puzzle.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 20 Apr. 2024
  • That there was a piece of the puzzle lost within the articles.
    Sharon Lenahan, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Then, late Thursday, a piece of the puzzle fell into place.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This is the last unfinished piece of the puzzle over who gets money and who doesn’t.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Though, Swift still left one piece of the puzzle unsolved — a still undisclosed fifth track for fans to guess the title of.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Daco added that remote work is only one piece of the puzzle here.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Hundreds of miles away, a stranger unknowingly found the final piece of the puzzle.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023
  • Another very real piece of the puzzle lies in the sheer destruction wrought on the landscape of Gaza.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Finding this piece of the puzzle would help flesh out the full story of where most of eukaryotes’ introns have come from.
    Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Putting that bullet in the correct place is the final piece of the puzzle (see Accuracy above).
    Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Our microbiome may well be a critical piece of the puzzle.
    Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But the other piece of the puzzle is portability within your house.
    Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 June 2023
  • But expanding to new streaming platforms is only one piece of the puzzle.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But what Cirrus Nexus and Google are testing could still be a critical piece of the puzzle for cutting emissions.
    Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Another piece of the puzzle that players must take into account are events within the world.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • That streaming future is the one piece of the puzzle where Iger still appears acquisitive.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
  • The standards, which would phase in requirements on coal and gas plants over a decade or more, are an important piece of the puzzle to address the climate crisis.
    David Hawkins, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The last piece of the puzzle fell into place when Schafer suggested Miles Redd as decorator.
    Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2023
  • Follow the water Our work has filled in a piece of the puzzle of how water is lost from planets, which affects how habitable a planet is for life.
    Eryn Cangi, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • This fossil could fill in a piece of the puzzle The site gives a fuller picture of the variety of life in the deep past — not just the animals with hard shells and bones that are usually found as fossils.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • While matching the size and color of the local bugs is a piece of the puzzle, achieving a proper drag-free drift is the single most important aspect of dry-fly fishing.
    Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
  • However, what does not feel good might be the one piece of the puzzle that your strategy was previously lacking.
    Revecka Jallad, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The only missing piece of the puzzle is macOS Sonoma, which is being released a little over a week from today on September 26.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Though the national average gives you a decent starting point for your car insurance comparisons, this is just one piece of the puzzle.
    Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • But in its own way, the song represented another interesting piece of the puzzle.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Covey’s transformation from a bold teen to an isolated young woman with few options keeps the audience engaged, and eager for the next piece of the puzzle.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The establishment of a trauma recovery center, however, is just one piece of the puzzle.
    Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Yet their arrival as the faces of the next generation of soccer stars has in some ways overshadowed Lavelle, whose performance during the 2019 World Cup title run marked her arrival as a bedrock piece of the puzzle.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • His conclusion: a highly speculative area of physics, string theory, could provide the missing piece of the puzzle between the monster and the sequence of numbers.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024

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