set piece

Example Sentences

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The reader settles in for a major set piece, but Lou proves too nervous to sing or give a decent toast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 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

The “To be, or not to be” monologue came across as a rhetorical set piece that Hamlet has been polishing for ages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 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

Bucci turns a bolt on one of the casters—the wheels on which the main set piece turns—and it snaps.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove