piece together

1. Join or combine parts into a whole, as in With information from several observers, she pieced together an account of what had actually taken place. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

I spoke to Mr Zende and read his recent book Mumbai's Most Wanted to piece together the story of Sobhraj's arrest.

From BBC

She packed deliberately lightly for the tournament so she could piece together vintage outfits from local second-hand shops as the team moved around England.

From BBC

As she tries to piece together what happened, the story jumps across generations and locations, from Japan to America and North Korea.

From BBC

Here in the cloud are the many hundreds of emails and texts from Blundy, his wife and their circle, allowing Metcalfe the satisfaction of knowing he can piece together the events of the epochal dinner party down to granular details: cutlery used, foods prepared, toasts proffered.

From Los Angeles Times

But the 64-year-old says it was many years later, when the scandal broke, that he began to piece together what had been happening in his own life.

From BBC

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