How to Use museum piece in a Sentence

museum piece

noun
  • That old computer will soon be a museum piece.
  • And the drone, though only eight years old, is a museum piece.
    — David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Their main phone, of course, had a cord and was stuck to the wall in the kitchen like a museum piece.
    — Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That thing on top of the hill in Montgomery is a museum piece.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The idea is to wear and use — and therefore love — your things, rather than treating them like museum pieces.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some seemed to think the museum piece was the typist, not the typewriter.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The owl, by an Asian street artist, has become as famous as any museum piece.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Where a skipjack under sail was not a museum piece but a working vessel.
    — Serena C. McIlwain, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
  • More museum pieces refurbished & tested to send to the front.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That fatberg was removed in chunks, but one of those chunks was given a second life as a museum piece.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Most importantly, the new cast and creatives didn’t want to build a museum piece.
    — Deborah Wilker, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
  • Those things are museum pieces now—the type of fare that haunts the dreams of Indiana Jones.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 14 May 2024
  • Even in the 21st century, the Gatling gun is no mere museum piece.
    — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Or just the opposite – a thing that was huge back then is a museum piece and doesn't really speak to anything.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Bonds that never mature, or do so after a century or longer, aren’t just museum pieces.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The chances that anyone will buy both and turn these museum pieces into daily drivers, or even weekend cruisers, seems low.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
  • All the noodles were served in beautiful large, heavy handmade bowls, which to my untrained eye seemed like priceless museum pieces.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The relationship between the viewer and the museum piece gets all scrambled when the viewer has stood still, so to speak.
    — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Her treatment of Mexican food as a museum piece was paternalistic at best and racist at worst.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • With its walls charred, the building is enclosed behind chain-link fence, like a museum piece on display for curious, or confused, passersby.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
  • The Opry had been in danger of becoming encased in amber, a museum piece that was treasured but no longer relevant.
    — New York Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Along the way, the plates themselves have become iconic, recycled into coffee tables, museum pieces, even fine art sculptures.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The Goldfinch is like a museum piece, a stately and handsome-looking thing that’s utterly lacking in momentum.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • With its future secured as a museum piece, the device in a way has returned to its original function of fascinating audiences.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • The space has an arty feel, with jewelry on display in long counters under glass, like a lineup of glittery museum pieces or a precious collection of butterflies.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the Oscars argued that the movies themselves are not a museum piece but a vital art form with an exciting future ahead, pandemic or no pandemic.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Mike Leach, coach of Washington State, is a genuine museum piece, at times outrageous, always disheveled.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Nearly a half-century since it was founded, Earth, Wind & Fire is receiving many an accolade these days, but the band is far from a museum piece.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Building cocktails out of historic spirits like this might almost seem like a waste; the more logical impulse is to drink them neat, pondering the rarity of it all like a kind of liquid museum piece.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Don Usher, the Park Service pilot, credited the helicopter itself — now a museum piece.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022

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