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.
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
Already at age 25, the legislative aide has packed his office in Ohio’s capital with collectible conversation pieces: campaign buttons, historic photographs, a display of founding father bobbleheads.
From Seattle Times
An interesting decanter, pitcher or ice bucket can be a conversation piece.
From Washington Post
“I love the handrail. It’s a conversation piece. I’ve been thinking about taking one of the professional shots and framing it and putting it next to the stairs, making it kind of meta.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
