How to Use period piece in a Sentence

period piece

noun

• Though set in the late 1960s, the movie couldn’t feel less like a period piece.
  — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
• Seeing Cafe Wha? and the street scenes of the Village in the ‘60s… the period piece of it all.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 July 2024
• The two met on the Parisian set of their 1989 period piece, Valmont.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Details are thin on the period piece’s plot, but the film marks the first time Winslet has worked with Allen.
  — Hunter Harris, The Cut, 6 Sep. 2017
• While details of the script are unknown, the film will be a period piece.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• Yet, in a way, series like this are period pieces in their own right.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• The styling showed how folk blouses and opera coats didn’t have to look like costumes in a period piece.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• Although details of the script are unknown, the film will be a period piece.
  — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
• Inside and out, Jones Hall is very much a 1960s period piece.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
• Although that makes sense, what’s striking is that the play doesn’t sound like a smart period piece.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
• Although that makes sense, what’s striking is that the play doesn’t sound like a smart period piece.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2023
• Winner of 12 awards, the period piece co-stars Cosmo Jarvis and Paul Hilton.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• So much would change in that decade that Sweetbitter, which is set in 2006, can’t help but be a bit of a period piece.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• The house has been restored and furnished with period pieces.
  — Michael Candelaria, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• If lavish period pieces with a hint of Amadeus are your thing, Chevalier is worth your time.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
• Ralph Fiennes will also star in the period piece that is based on a true story.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• The story is a period piece [in relation] to the other films.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
• From period pieces to foreign thrillers, here’s what 11 of them are bingeing.
  — Thea Glassman, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• There are also all the delicious trappings of a period piece—the sets, the costumes!
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2022
• The film has a softer look than you’re accustomed to seeing in a period piece.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• Both are 1980s-set period pieces that resonate in unsettling ways in the present day.
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 23 Sep. 2019
• The book also inspired Clueless, which is more of a time capsule of 1995 than a period piece.
  — Lia Beck, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
• But the movie also has an uncanny timeliness, a period piece that's as much about the present as the past.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
• Keira Knightley period pieces are 100 percent my thing, and this one looks great.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 14 July 2018
• Also, the man knows how to execute a great period piece.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 26 Feb. 2020
• The film is a period piece but the subject matter is very familiar.
  — EW.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• There were horses, mules, wagons and everything in the movie is a period piece.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• There is nothing quite like a period piece to inspire a wardrobe refresh.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 26 Aug. 2021
• Interest in Shogun has been limited in most of the rest of Asia, where the series didn’t attract such a big audience and where people have long been aware of Japanese period pieces.
  — Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
• After a sweeping performance led by Shōgun at the Emmys, the network will close out 2024 with another epic period piece, Say Nothing.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024