pièces de résistance
- plural of pièce de résistance.
Example Sentences
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His pièces de résistance are 10 5-by-10-foot panels painted as a fresco on a prison wall — an impossible-to-remove item, or so it would seem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2012
Les deux pièces de résistance at Mount Street were a dissipated young English lord and a gouty old Irish distiller, and Mrs. Barton was making every effort to secure one of these.
From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)
Figs, no longer posing as a pastime of the palate, were accepted seriously as pièces de résistance.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel
These pièces de résistance in their different stages of hot, cold, and warmed over, carried them well along through the week, and, supplemented with an occasional chop or steak, served very well.
From Clover by Coolidge, Susan
