museum piece

Example Sentences

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There comes a moment in the afterlife of even the most successful musical when it threatens to become a museum piece.

From New York Times

“They’re not viewed as a museum piece.”

From Seattle Times

The show wasn’t meant to just be a museum piece.

From Seattle Times

She showed me another in-progress New Museum piece — a lumpy ceramic mass tied in the style of shibari, or Japanese rope bondage — and said that she intended to display it on the ground “like a dead body or like a sleeping body.”

From New York Times

Like so much of the author’s work in other media — the play “Jeffrey,” the film “In and Out” — “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” seems less interested in serving as a gay museum piece than as a filigreed statement.

From New York Times