of a piece

1. Also, all of a piece. Of the same kind, as in This legislation is of a piece with the previous bill, or Her rude behavior was all of a piece. The piece in this idiom alludes to a single mass of material. [Early 1600s]

Example Sentences

Beowulf had gnawed a perfectly usable letter opener out of a piece of wood.

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Look at this beautiful picture of a piece of our sky; it is filled with what might look like small dots of light, but those are actually galaxies – billions of them – each containing billions of stars.

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In the Sistine Chapel there was a serene moment with the singing of a piece by the English Catholic composer Thomas Tallis.

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What the president has done by firing several of the TJAGs is of a piece with the expansive notions of removability of senior federal officials who also have fixed terms of office.

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Felix breaks down the oddity that is the Bob Ross painting market and explains how charity auctions can skew the value of a piece of art.

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