piece of glass

collocation in English

meaningsofpieceandglass

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piece
noun[C]
uk
/piːs/us
/piːs/
a part ...
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glass
noun
uk
/ɡlɑːs/us
/ɡlæs/
a hard, transparent material, used to make windows, bottles, and ...
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(Definition ofpieceandglassfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiece of glass

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The print was pasted face down to the inside of a concavepieceofglass.
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He therefore used a sphere from a singlepieceofglasswith a deep groove cut in it.
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She has a sharppieceofglassin her right hand, and is frightened by what is going on.
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There are six routes, cut through a dark tintedpieceofglass.
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It was quickly vandalized again, and everypieceofglassin the lantern was broken despite the protective mesh.
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The girl cut herself on apieceofglass.
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Can you conceive of a more heinous crime than for a small boy to break apieceofglassbelonging to a local authority!
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Furthermore, the police officers would be wearing gloves which were sterilized, which is more than thepieceofglasswould be.
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Has not thispieceofglasssuffered through variations of the weather?
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For light, a hole has been knocked in the roof and thepieceofglassabout a foot square has been fitted in.
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The burglar has merely to break apieceofglassand insert his hand and unlock the door when people are out shopping.
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It was a brokenpieceofglass, and the window actually belonged in that case to the local authority.
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In the coffin there was inlaid apieceofglass.
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If a fragilepieceofglassis not broken, the fact of its fragility is not a problem, but in this case the glass was broken and fragile.
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Later the same day, he held apieceofglassat the throat of a 23-year-old woman whom he had grabbed in a shopping arcade.
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He reminds me of a person in a glass maze in a funfair, eternally seeking a way through but always bumping his nose on anotherpieceofglass.
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How they started will never be known; perhaps it was arson, or possibly they were caused by a discardedpieceofglassor a carelessly dropped cigarette end.
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He was diabetic and in 1990 his foot got injured by apieceofglassso doctors suggest him to cut off his leg.
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The sunlight that is destined for the eyepiece is reflected from an unsilvered surface of apieceofglass.
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