Sentence examples for term a piece from inspiring English sources

As long as it's recognised as an umbrella term, a piece of shorthand, there doesn't seem to be too much to worry about.

The dining-room walls, for example, are upholstered in a champagne-colored stripe that adds an air of luxe in contrast to the dining table, which the decorator terms a piece of refurbished junk.

In broad terms, a piece of it has to be shared history and another piece has to be shared interests.

"In the short term, having a piece of roof over your head is better than having none," she added.

Maybe it's time to move on to Rod Liddle – who last week chucked a racially loaded term into a piece on horsemeat.

Originally a nautical term for a piece of old cable (perhaps like the rope that went into BP's junk shot), it was transferred to unwanted rubbish or poor-quality stuff more generally in the mid-19th century.

Loin, that part of an animal lying between the upper part of the hipbone and the last of the false ribs on either side of the backbone hence, the butcher's term for a piece of meat cut from that part of the body.

Richard Dawkins' term for a piece of cultural transmission in the kind of social network cloud de Chardin described, a meme replicates like a gene and spreads virally.

Assistive Technology (often abbreviated as AT) is an umbrella term for a piece of equipment, software, or product that can assist people with disabilities to perform tasks more easily or independently.

The actual classification, i.e. the binary assignment of a particular term to a piece of text, is achieved by cutting off the list at a particular rank or score.

They described companies in disparaging terms, like a "piece of junk".