jigsaw puzzle
noun
: a puzzle consisting of small irregularly cut pieces that are to be fitted together to form a picture
also
: something suggesting a jigsaw puzzle
Examples of jigsaw puzzle in a Sentence
We spent many nights working on a jigsaw puzzle of Mount Everest.
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As relaxing as a jigsaw puzzle Jennifer Aitkens lives more than 425 miles away from Lansing in Nobel, Ontario, about 150 miles north of Toronto.
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
Managers saw themselves as solving the equivalent of familiar jigsaw puzzles.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
The new No 9? Referring back to the jigsaw puzzle, a Darwin Nunez exit and no striker incoming makes Wirtz playing as a false nine more probable.
—Andy Jones, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Life is a warped jigsaw puzzle: The pieces of the normal and the abnormal do not fit together.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 22 June 2025
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
Managers saw themselves as solving the equivalent of familiar jigsaw puzzles.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
The new No 9? Referring back to the jigsaw puzzle, a Darwin Nunez exit and no striker incoming makes Wirtz playing as a false nine more probable.
—Andy Jones, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Life is a warped jigsaw puzzle: The pieces of the normal and the abnormal do not fit together.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 22 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for jigsaw puzzle
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“Jigsaw puzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jigsaw%20puzzle. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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