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How to use jigsaw in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Jigsaw means a power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal. Example: “A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.”

Examples of jigsaw by meaning

nounSomething that can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle.

  • A rolling programme of platform closures will enable Network Rail to replace 54-year-old signalling and (when complete in 2022) complete a jigsaw of upgrades that started in 2005.2021 January 27, “Network News: Signalling work at New Street”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 14
  • The last piece of the jigsaw dropped into place in July with the stretch of line from Coleford Junction to Meldon Quarry being purchased by Network Rail from Aggregate Industries for a nominal sum.2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “The Dartmoor Line through time”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43

More sentences with jigsaw

  • A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.From the entry lacking
  • The jigsaw puzzle will come apart if you try to pick it up.From the entry come apart
  • None of these pieces fit together. Are they really from the same jigsaw puzzle?From the entry fit together
  • I've lost a piece of this jigsaw puzzle.From the entry piece
  • This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side.From the entry go
  • Whenever will I find time to finish that jigsaw?From the entry whenever
  • This jigsaw is missing several pieces.From the entry miss
  • Configurable in sixty-four possible variations, the Honda Element is, hands-down, the jigsaw puzzle of transportation.2006 November 30, Alyssa Gruen, “New car models as versatile as a pair of blue jeans”, in Daily Orange, retrieved 02 Nov 2010. From the entry configurable
  • The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3. From the entry puzzlery
  • As you say, in addition to double puzzles, we publish alphabetical jigsaws and thematic crosswords from time to time.1974, John Perkin, quotee, Games & Puzzles. From the entry alphabetical jigsaw
  • As this cannot be the case with a jigsaw puzzle, when it is faced by one the system has a nervous breakdown.2015 March 13, Hugh Stephenson, “A to Z”, in The Guardian. From the entry jigsaw puzzle
  • The scrapbooky style of Hardcore Logo and the memoir-slash-screenplay format of American Whiskey Bar demonstrate his ability to successfully deliver a story in jigsaw increments.2009 September 27, Ryan Bigge, “A snapshot carousel delivers in increments”, in Toronto Star. From the entry scrapbooky
  • For those who seek surveillance revenues, dark data represent lucrative and necessary territories in the dynamic universal jigsaw constituted by surveillance capitalism's urge toward scale, scope, and action.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry dark data
  • So speaking of letter frequencies, I learned from experience that it’s better to start solving abecedarian jigsaws with the last clues instead of the first ones.2013 December 19, Braze, “Abecedarian jigsaw (Puzzle No. 3,307)”, in The Nation Cryptic Crossword Forum. From the entry abecedarian jigsaw
  • The entire historic jigsaw puzzle had too many pieces that didn’t fit; too confusing for us to understand or ashamingly disgraceful for us to want to understand.1981 April 22, “Belated ‘welcome home’ to Vietnam veterans”, in The Romulus Roman, volume 96, number 2, Wayne, Mich.: Associated…. From the entry ashamingly

Meaning of jigsaw

  1. noun A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.
  2. noun A jigsaw puzzle.
  3. noun Something that can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle.

Full definition of jigsaw

Questions about jigsaw in a sentence

How do you use jigsaw in a sentence?
Jigsaw is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.”
What is a short sentence with jigsaw?
“This jigsaw is missing several pieces.”
What does jigsaw mean?
Jigsaw means a power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jigsaw (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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