bits and pieces

plural noun

1

: small pieces

There were broken bits and pieces of glass all over the floor.

I finished the project in bits and pieces during my spare time.

2

: things or objects of different kinds

There are just a few bits and pieces of furniture in the office.

No one knows exactly what happened. All we have is a few bits and pieces of information so far.

Examples of bits and pieces in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Also, while other ebike manufacturers sell accessories separately, adding hundreds of dollars on top of the original costs, the Swoop ASM includes a bunch of useful bits and pieces. —Stefan Ionescu march 02, New Atlas, 2 Mar. 2026

So Mark Olsky, Eva Clarke, and Hana Berger-Moran grew up as only children, learning about the war in bits and pieces from their mothers. —Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026

In other words, the brain collects bits and pieces of information, sometimes from different times and places, and forges them into a memory. —Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026

Rewatching bits and pieces of the director’s filmography this week, the ongoing investigation into the killings of Reiner and his wife kept intruding. —Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for bits and pieces

• dentifrices
• frontispieces
• masterpieces
• caprices
• decreases
• eyepieces
• increases
• mouthpieces
• polices
• releases
• timepieces
• varices