put together

1. Build, assemble, create, as in We put together the new bookcase , or This writer can't put together a coherent sentence . [First half of 1500s]

2. Combine mentally, as in Once she put this and that together she knew exactly what had happened . [First half of 1600s] Also see put our heads together ; put two and two together .

Example Sentences

“I had started to become disillusioned with the norms of how people put together social structures,” recalls Miller.

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I heard that at one point you were trying to put together a Batman musical on Broadway.

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Then, I have this other little thing that came along who, unfortunately, is brighter than the other two put together.

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Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has put together a plan that would serve well as a blueprint.

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“Russia is bigger than all of our previous sanction targets put together,” he said.

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They sleep high up, on some boards or planks roughly put together.

From Project Gutenberg

A long, portable cage had been put together on the stage during the intermission, and within it the ten pacing beasts.

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But my master's interests are dearer to me than all the friends that I have in the world put together.

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Im going to see your mother; she cares more about dress than you and Dine put together.

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The words, though Latin in themselves, make English when put together; and the Hibernianism of the spelling is very plain.

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