conversation piece

Example Sentences

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My knife also became something of a conversation piece—friends I cooked for wanted to try it, drawing it from its homemade cover, crafted from old shoe boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Unique cookbooks, cutting boards, wooden spoons and platters can all make for interested displays and conversation pieces, while still earning their spots in the space by being usable cooking tools.

From Seattle Times

A conversation piece and something for people to talk about and wonder about.

From Salon

Art can serve as a finishing touch, a conversation piece or a focal point in a room.

From Washington Post

He can believe that the n-word can be treated as an intellectual conversation piece rather than as the single most fraught and painful word in the English language.

From Washington Post