Sentence examples for lost piece in from inspiring English sources

PHNOM PENH — The really challenging thing is trying to teach his countrymen how to eat a hamburger — a culture clash that is more than culinary as he tries to fit himself, like a lost piece in a puzzle, back into the land of his birth.

During his 13 years in power, Slobodan Milosevic has lost piece after piece of his country.

The circle goes in search of this lost piece and, after some tribulations, finds it.

In the United Kingdom, lost pieces of luggage are sold in blind auctions.

Some items retain functionality with missing buttons and lost pieces, whereas many others wind up in landfills -- or, in a feat of wonderful irony, recycled and shipped back to China to be turned into more short-term consumer goods.

He said that before this debate started, they felt like old jigsaw-puzzle pieces in a box, like lost pieces of a toy.

After equipment is distributed, measures must be in place to replace faulty or lost pieces, as well as to provide new birth attendants with bags and masks.

He hates it when I drop (and lose) pieces of mail in our driveway.

To comfort yourself, it may be a good idea to think of the most awful mistakes made by the greatest players — like Capablanca in the prime of youth losing a piece in the opening, then stubbornly continuing but losing flatly.

Nerds never lose that piece in them that wanted to make the next Star Wars sequel.

Their offensive line, which lost another irreplaceable piece in Nick Mangold for a stretch Monday, often fails to give Sanchez adequate time to throw.