showpiece
IPA: ʃˈoʊpis
noun
- Something that exhibits exceptional quality, something worth being shown.
- Something made specifically to be displayed.
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Examples of "showpiece" in Sentences
- It could be a real showpiece with effort.
- The intro is our showpiece, we must get it right.
- The showpiece attraction at The Great Escape is the Comet.
- This allowed for a showpiece final at the end of the season.
- It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that.
- A test model put out as a showpiece of progress was criticized.
- A showpiece is a carrier coach of the woman of a Shogun from Japan.
- The set will be a valuable reference aid and a showpiece ofWikipedia.
- The showpiece of the House is the south facade overlooking the gardens.
- By this time they had expanded Time to be the showpiece of their live show.
- I don't remember what all cars they had from the movie but the showpiece was the Jeep by the character played by Tom Cruise.
- The showpiece is a lengthy interpretation of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," with a brief detour into George Gershwin's "Summertime."
- However, England plans to take a team of 560 for the October 3-14 showpiece, which is set to be the biggest multiple-sport event staged in India since the 1982 Asian Games.
- The showpiece will be a collection of about 10,000 personal papers that belonged to Dr. King, which were purchased with a $32 million loan backed by some of Atlanta's biggest philanthropists and corporations.
- The showpiece is a complex natural cooling plan that will bring the temperature down dramatically, for example from about 45 degrees Celsius outdoors to about 25 degrees indoors, according to Mr. Schuler, who is working on the project.
- This will have several interlocking components: The showpiece will be a new U.N. Security Council resolution to add sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated companies, along with other Iranian firms involved in manufacturing, transporting and financing weapons shipments and other illicit activities.