piece of bread

collocation in English

meaningsofpieceandbread

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piece
noun[C]
uk
/piːs/us
/piːs/
a part ...
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bread
noun[U]
uk
/bred/us
/bred/
a food made from flour, water, and usually yeast, mixed together ...
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(Definition ofpieceandbreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiece of bread

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It is helped with a silver fork, and eaten with a silver fork, assisted by apieceofbreadin the left hand.
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I wonder how many people have a roll or apieceofbreadwith a dinner that is quite adequate without the addition of bread.
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He is unable to wash his shirt, and his food consists of one smallpieceofbreadand a little soup daily.
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People were each given apieceofbreadand some water every six hours.
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We are trying to spread a very little butter over a very largepieceofbread.
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It is rather similar to that of a hungry child on being given apieceofbreadwhen it expected bread and milk.
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We let him share our diet, and my guide proceeded to smother apieceofbreadwith jam for him.
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To put it vulgarly, to spread the butter over too wide apieceofbreadmeans that we shall spread it too thinly to be of value to anybody.
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Packaging is important to protect the product, but surely a double layer of plastic around a smallpieceofbreadis taking things slightly too far.
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Up to now anyone who wants to spread the margarine on the bread has had to do so with his fingers or with apieceofbread.
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In other words, if the stage service contractor has to run unremunerative services, he wants contract carriage business to put a little butter on the ever-dryingpieceofbread.
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I talked the guy behind the counter into putting them all onto apieceofbreadfor me.
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The latter dipped a preparedpieceofbreadinto the dish, touched it to his tongue, then discarded it into a nearby silver bin.
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A farl is a flatpieceofbreadabout 3/4 inch thick with a rough quarter-circle shape.
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Her husband found her, and then that night ate apieceofbread.
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She mentions one important point, that when he eats he always picks up apieceofbreadand dabs up the crumbs with it.
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Many youths would sell their bodies for as little as apieceofbread.
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For the light, he would touch the area in question with water and then rub it with apieceofbread.
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Fly to the sky, little ladybird, bring me apieceofbread.
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However, she could only find a smallpieceofbread.
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