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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)

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

I have a tender remembrance of a few which were our pièces de résistance when we "dressed up" either for charades or one of Miss Corner's plays—"in my young days."

From The Peace Egg and Other tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty