museum piece

Example Sentences

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It would require more briskness and directorial ingenuity to make Barry’s Jazz Age hit more than a pleasant-enough museum piece.

From Washington Post

This isn’t Mozart as a museum piece, porcelain to be handled with delicacy.

From New York Times

A local joke has it that the sea is now like a museum piece: Look, but don’t touch.

From Los Angeles Times

Her treatment of Mexican food as a museum piece was paternalistic at best and racist at worst.

From Los Angeles Times

Since its unveiling to the public at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in October 1915, the T. rex has become the world’s most iconic dinosaur and sought-after museum piece, the one creature whose full Latin name is common knowledge.

From Slate