"It's sort of like assembling a puzzle," he says.
"Removing corroded panels to weld in new ones is like assembling a puzzle.
Then they gradually incorporate additional elements, as though they were assembling a puzzle.
to retrieve bags of puzzle pieces to assemble a puzzle.
As the auditors struggle to reconstruct the path of each errant dollar, prosecutors and detectives are trying to assemble, from a puzzle of murky details, an understanding of Monsignor Gradilone's relationship with Mr. Vivona and Mr. Schweigert.
The Concentration game, which would have been fun to watch and play along with, was skimmed over, but now we get assembling a jigsaw puzzle, one of the all-time least-riveting spectator sports.
They liken the process, from that point on, to that of assembling a jigsaw puzzle, where the pieces are individual components of particular machines in yeast cells.
In this ingenious, disquieting novel, she has assembled an intricate puzzle of self-belief and self-doubt, showing the peril of seeking your own image in someone else's distorted mirror — or even, sometimes, in your own.
"Rebuilding New Orleans is not like assembling a jigsaw puzzle," he wrote in the introduction.
