piece
While it was being transported, the pipe broke into three pieces.
Investigators are trying to find out what caused the plane to break into pieces in midair.
Our visitor accidentally stepped on a glass ornament, breaking it into tiny pieces.
Add a cinnamon stick, broken into pieces.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tearing and breaking into pieces
apart
asunder
bobble
bobbly
break (something) off
chip
crack
dismantle
fall apart
fall to piecesidiom
fragment
fragmentation
fragmented
rip
snag
splinter
split
sunder
tear something apart
tear something up