piece by piece

Meaning

piece by piece

By completing each component gradually and in stages.
Synonyms: bit by bit, little by little
Rather than tackling the entire project at once, work on each assignment piece by piece.

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Synonyms

increasingly gradually slowly partly piecemeal partially step by step little by little bit by bit progressively imperceptibly fractionally inchmeal

Antonyms

surprisingly unexpectedly all of a sudden of a sudden out of thin air

Examples

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece. Sarah Dessen

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian) Steven Erikson

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Yeardley Smith

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. Victoria Azarenka

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. Johann Georg Hamann

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus. Joe Frazier

Words in the phrase

piece by

Close letter words and terms

piece piece bag piece broker piece de resistance piece goods piece of action