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Example sentences for "pie"

Lexicographically close words:
piddle; piddling; pide; pidgin; pido; piebald; piece; pieced; piecee; piecemeal
  1. Pare, core and cut five sour apples into eighths; place evenly in a pie plate lined with the usual pie pastry.

  2. Line a deep pie plate with good rich paste; pour in the mixture and bake in a quick oven thirty minutes.

  3. Put in two pie pans, or in muffin pans for individual shortcakes, and sprinkle tops with granulated sugar.

  4. I once came on a merry fellow eating a whole pie with great mouthfuls on the Court House steps, explaining meantime to the crowd that he was the youngest son of Little Jack Horner.

  5. Mince pie would have stretched it to a volume.

  6. To this day I think of paper-hangers as a kindly race of men, who sing in echoing rooms and eat pie and pickles for their lunch.

  7. If there's a chance for us Minute Boys to have a finger in any pie that is baking, don't let's linger here!

  8. We will carry your message, sir, and bind ourselves to deliver it before sunrise," I cried, burning with the desire to have a finger in this pie of rebellion against the king and General Gage.

  9. She hopes Aunt Hopkins will have mince pie for dinner, and make it real sweet, too; and she hopes Cousin Tom Hopkins will be at home, because he always gives her sixpences.

  10. A custard pie already cut and served on plates on the kitchen table, reassembled itself in the pie tin and walked out of the kitchen door when Annie changed the plates in the dining room.

  11. Frank had steadily refused cotton wool doughnuts and sanded pie and every doubtful delicacy, but he was extremely fond of cup custard.

  12. I could bate a pound ye did," said Erchie.

  13. I was jist gettin' better, and sittin' up a wee while in the evenin' to air the bed, and Jinnet was oot for a message.

  14. Whit wad be the use o' giein' it to you, Peter?

  15. Ye get things far fresher at this time o' the year doon the toon.

  16. But when it came to the purchase of the umbrella he did go into the shop with her, and she got what she thought was a bargain, as well as the finest affability and courtesy from the gentleman who sold it.

  17. I'm for a pie and a bottle o' Broon Robin.

  18. The pie is an English institution, which, planted on American soil, forthwith ran rampant and burst forth into an untold variety of genera and species.

  19. There were cunning little dishes of mashed potato and cranberry sauce, and some celery in a tiny tumbler, and the smallest squash pie baked in a patty pan.

  20. He also reflected that his mother looked thin and pale, that sister Ellie needed shoes, and that plum pudding and mince pie used to be on Thanksgiving tables.

  21. The chicken leg was picked bare, the bread was nibbled, and the little pie was eaten all around.

  22. The great kitchen was all of a pleasant litter with pie plates and cake pans and mixing bowls, and full of warm, spicy odours.

  23. In time he departed, not only with the turkey, but with us boys in procession after him, bearing a mince and a pumpkin pie for Hepsey's children.

  24. Thou hast his eyes, now that I look at thee more closely.

  25. I have not made my fifth attempt," he said quietly.

  26. Tell me," he said, abruptly, "have you seen aught of the young man called Landless?

  27. But the Lord hath a controversy with them!

  28. A bar fell from the door, and it swung slowly inwards.

  29. I have found variety enough," said Landless.

  30. Then why have you to do with me, and with the man to whom we are going?

  31. I confess that my expectation of finding a courteous and loving kinsman," a gracious smile and inclination of the head towards the older man, "is the only one in which I have not been disappointed.

  32. If we are caught--" "Our skins pay for us.

  33. They shall lick the dust like serpents, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth, and be utterly destroyed!

  34. The Muggletonian rested on his oar, and turned to Landless.

  35. Oh, no, my beloved Gouverneur Faulkner; I must go immediately to home and there make myself presentable for a dinner of some very wonderful pie that my Buzz demanded of that very lovely Madam Taylor in my honor.

  36. Why, he means it, General," said the Gouverneur Faulkner with a great softness in his eyes that answered the affection that was in mine that pleaded for the pie and a place at his side.

  37. They'll have pie and milk sent in and work it all out together.

  38. And to that question to myself I found an answer in only two short hours while partaking of the very famous custard pie at the table of that very lovely Madam Taylor.

  39. Boy, by the time you have eaten that fatted pie at the Taylors' and danced at least a portion of it off of your system I'll be--be burning the midnight oil going over the papers in the case of Timms.

  40. No, pie and business, I say, pie and business!

  41. Good night, and make a lightning toilet if you want to get to that pie on time.

  42. This will make one large pie or two small ones.

  43. The handsomest way of ornamenting the edge of a pie or pudding is to cut the rim in large square notches, and then fold over triangularly one corner of every notch.

  44. Any meat pie may be made in a similar manner.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affair; breeze; cent; cinch; dollar; franc; pastry; pasty; pate; picnic; pie; pound; puff; rosette; ruble; setup; shilling; snap; snip; sou; strudel; tart; timbale; trifle; turnover; velvet


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    piece called; piece work; piercing glance; piercing shriek