How to Use museum piece in a Sentence

museum piece

noun
Definition of museum piecenext
Synonyms for museum piecenext
  • That old computer will soon be a museum piece.
  • That thing on top of the hill in Montgomery is a museum piece.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Some seemed to think the museum piece was the typist, not the typewriter.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Even in the 21st century, the Gatling gun is no mere museum piece.
    — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2016
  • The idea is to wear and use — and therefore love — your things, rather than treating them like museum pieces.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The owl, by an Asian street artist, has become as famous as any museum piece.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Most importantly, the new cast and creatives didn’t want to build a museum piece.
    — Deborah Wilker, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
  • That fatberg was removed in chunks, but one of those chunks was given a second life as a museum piece.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The relationship between the viewer and the museum piece gets all scrambled when the viewer has stood still, so to speak.
    — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
  • All the noodles were served in beautiful large, heavy handmade bowls, which to my untrained eye seemed like priceless museum pieces.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Many women displayed their Leiber bags like museum pieces.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The chances that anyone will buy both and turn these museum pieces into daily drivers, or even weekend cruisers, seems low.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Bonds that never mature, or do so after a century or longer, aren’t just museum pieces.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The Opry had been in danger of becoming encased in amber, a museum piece that was treasured but no longer relevant.
    — New York Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Nearly a half-century since it was founded, Earth, Wind & Fire is receiving many an accolade these days, but the band is far from a museum piece.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Goldfinch is like a museum piece, a stately and handsome-looking thing that’s utterly lacking in momentum.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • With its walls charred, the building is enclosed behind chain-link fence, like a museum piece on display for curious, or confused, passersby.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
  • To that end, the F.B.I. has come calling, since one person’s museum piece might be another person’s evidence.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Her treatment of Mexican food as a museum piece was paternalistic at best and racist at worst.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • His apartment has become a staging area for the museum pieces, including a 1901 Koken barber chair and antique poles of various sizes and styles.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Discovered by an amazed farmer, the poor beast ended its short life in Sweden as a stuffed museum piece — probably the one and only alligator ever found in the wild in Sweden.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Still, the Oscars argued that the movies themselves are not a museum piece but a vital art form with an exciting future ahead, pandemic or no pandemic.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Mike Leach, coach of Washington State, is a genuine museum piece, at times outrageous, always disheveled.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Along the way, the plates themselves have become iconic, recycled into coffee tables, museum pieces, even fine art sculptures.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Building cocktails out of historic spirits like this might almost seem like a waste; the more logical impulse is to drink them neat, pondering the rarity of it all like a kind of liquid museum piece.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There’s no denying Julius’ place in history but, by drawing hundreds of revelers late into the night, the Mattachine parties have helped keep the bar from turning into a museum piece.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Don Usher, the Park Service pilot, credited the helicopter itself — now a museum piece.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • With its future secured as a museum piece, the device in a way has returned to its original function of fascinating audiences.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • The relatively small private house is part stuffy Edwardian museum piece, part down-to-earth family retreat.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • After all, the show is hardly a museum piece when the millionaires are now billionaires, and the sources of income are no longer railroads or mining, but the data surveillance and worker exploitation that exist in the shadow of Big Tech.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022

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