set piece

Example Sentences

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In Verdi’s hands the waltz is no mere set piece articulating place and time, but a throughline central to the realism at the heart of the work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The annual set piece before a joint session of Congress in early March of that year offered him an opportunity—a requirement, really—to show that he was capable of doing the job for another four years.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

"In the Premier League, you see a lot more long throw-ins, set pieces - it's become a lot slower and more set piece based, I would say."

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

The “Hamlet” production is a fantastic set piece, with man-made sets and Shakespeare’s theatre-in-the-round filmed as accurately and affectionately as the nature that consumes so much of the film’s first two acts.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

If the main set piece does not rotate, it’s useless.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove