jigsaw puzzle
noun
: a puzzle consisting of small irregularly cut pieces that are to be fitted together to form a picture
also
: something suggesting a jigsaw puzzle
Examples of jigsaw puzzle in a Sentence
We spent many nights working on a jigsaw puzzle of Mount Everest.
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Anthropologists spend months trying to arrange them like a jigsaw puzzle.
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Fred Ramos, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
In the special, Sloss shares his father’s analogy that life is a jigsaw puzzle and love is a missing interior piece.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The two got to bonding over a routine of beers and jigsaw puzzles, and one afternoon, when Ruth was robbed, Gibbs gave pursuit in his truck, with Ruth riding shotgun/jotting down the thieves’ plate.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 16 Dec. 2024
Musgraves also assembles an outsized jigsaw puzzle made of grass, piecing together a grand lawn.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Fred Ramos, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
In the special, Sloss shares his father’s analogy that life is a jigsaw puzzle and love is a missing interior piece.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The two got to bonding over a routine of beers and jigsaw puzzles, and one afternoon, when Ruth was robbed, Gibbs gave pursuit in his truck, with Ruth riding shotgun/jotting down the thieves’ plate.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 16 Dec. 2024
Musgraves also assembles an outsized jigsaw puzzle made of grass, piecing together a grand lawn.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Jigsaw puzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jigsaw%20puzzle. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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