"It will be a conversation piece for friends and family, that's all," he said the other day.

It was a conversation piece and started off the conversations.

"We don't want to have it be a conversation piece."

Then, too, the tree will be a conversation piece for the rest of the Armstrongs' lives.

The padded toilet seat with the slightly abstract picture of a rooster would be a conversation piece in any home.

"It was a conversation piece among my friends, but in a professional setting I realized how inappropriate it was."

We passed the iPhone around a group of people and everyone had a blast with it, and even the drone itself was a conversation piece.

It is a conversation piece.

But he has found that the showpiece has a hidden asset: it is a conversation piece as much as a timepiece.

The plants soon broke into bloom and the combination is a conversation piece in pink (salmon pink for the geraniums, with fine green leaves) and blue.

Suitable for any gentleman's library, the Freshfords mahogany library chair is a conversation piece, as is its $40,000 price tag.

His last recorded work was a conversation piece of William Milner, second baronet, dated 1764, and he is assumed to have died shortly after this date.

It quickly went from a product that was a conversation piece to something that collected dust in my collection of equipment-to hardware the whole family uses on a daily basis.

Christopher E. Bangle, BMW's first non-German design chief, wants each BMW to be a conversation piece known as much for design as precision engineering.

Today it was a conversation piece, the occasion for a touch of smugness, even triumphalism, as people talked about the American-led NATO bombing in Yugoslavia and let slide their usual studied politeness about their defeat of American military might.

The shocking home run that beat the Yankees late Sunday night was a conversation piece today, the players unanimous in their agreement that Mike Piazza's rocket off Carlos Almanzar was even longer than the monster shot he hit off Ramiro Mendoza in 1999.

"Born Too Late" is a conversation piece, containing references to important figures of the past and present, such as Vincent van Gogh, Elvis, Mother Theresa, John Lennon, Jerry Garcia, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Edison, Jimi Hendrix, Jesus, Buddha, and William Shakespeare.

Most important of all it will become a conversation piece.

If you're ready to go all out, spend money on something more than a conversation piece.

It would make a great conversation piece at a dinner party.

On the other hand, each of those films was a big hit and a significant conversation piece.

It is now a conversation piece, on display in my office.

"This will create a good conversation piece and maybe a little red face from the post office."

"It will be a conversation piece for friends and family, that's all," he said the other day.

It was a conversation piece and started off the conversations.

But it does make a good conversation piece every few years."

When given the proper room, these trees can become conversation pieces.

Such reflections of the middle class were called conversation pieces.

"And anytime you have a conversation piece, it's a great way of getting to know the public."

The clock may prove to be nothing more than a conversation piece.

These works are often used as conversation pieces for offices and homes.

"When I meet people it's a conversation piece," she said.

A nice conversation piece at informal parties, they'd told him.

The wine is good to drink, and an excellent conversation piece.

"It's a nice conversation piece, and you do meet others by playing.

Others are so unusual that they qualify as conversation pieces at a party.

"We don't want to have it be a conversation piece."

With the baby as a conversation piece, people who might otherwise have felt at a loss for what to say suddenly had plenty.

He was pointing to a conversation piece, English, of about the late eighties.

Luck was never to be despised - certainly not by me - and it made a conversation piece.

It occurred to me that the picture would make a fine conversation piece hung in my apartment.

But it's the bathrooms in Sketch that are the real conversation pieces.