pièce de résistance
Example Sentences
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You'll be able to master the piece de resistance of the Thanksgiving tablescape before you know it.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
Ermotti may need to persuade Switzerland's authorities that UBS should keep "the piece de resistance," Credit Suisse's domestic bank, said Porta's Wittmann.
From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2023
She returns for the piece de resistance — the pas de deux of the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier, with its dramatic soaring lifts and fish dives.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
The piece de resistance is the inherited wood bar, one side of which is decorated with a peeling military poster and sign framed in bottle caps: “Be nice or leave,” it reads.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022
"I've told you all the news about the fashions, the salon, the plays, the opera, all the scandals of Paris I can remember but you'll never guess my piece de resistance."
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
