PIE in a Sentence

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74 example sentences for PIE, such as:

1. He polished off the whole pie.
2. Serve the pie with whipped cream.
3. He wants a bigger share of the pie.
4. Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
5. For dessert there's a fruit pie of some sort.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pie
 n.  dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
 n.  a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  She uncovered the pie and pushed it over to him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  She poured out her tea, added a great deal of milk to it, helped herself largely to pie and pickles, and made the familiar gesture of adjusting her false teeth before she began to eat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  "That pie of yours always sets a mite heavy, Matt," she said, not ill-naturedly.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Melly blushed, unaccustomed to such frankness, and signaled Peter to bring in the sweet potato pie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  "And I never thought you'd be driving a pie wagon, Renny Picard," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Mrs. Merriwether and her baking and Rene driving the pie wagon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  One afternoon, Scarlett pulled up her buggy beside Rene Picard's pie wagon and hailed Rene and the crippled Tommy Wellburn, who was catching a ride home with his friend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  I lak ze dear Yankees who so kindly buy ze pie of Madame Belle Mere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Rene was managing it with true French thrift and Grandpa Merriwether, glad to escape from his chimney corner, was driving Rene's pie wagon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Grandpa Merriwether's pie wagon was in the center of the tangle and, as she came closer, Scarlett saw that Tommy Wellburn and Uncle Henry Hamilton were crowded on the seat with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  I met old man Merriwether this morning driving Rene's pie wagon and cursing the horse like an army mule skinner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  The room was full of women and girls, all too much engaged in the rapid absorption of tea and pie to remark her entrance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
13  Nobody needs drug-store ice cream; pie is good enough for anybody.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  If the plot lacked lucidity, the dual motif of legs and pie was clear and sure.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Bathing and modeling were equally sound occasions for legs; the wedding-scene was but an approach to the thunderous climax when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The pie diagram shows the level of spending on health in Japan.
2  They're in collusion with the government and just want a piece of the pie like everyone else.
3  So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper with the family, and was just old pie to him, so to speak.
4  You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.
5  When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon.
6  She told us a simple method for making a pie crust.
7  The Panther took pie crust, and gravy, and meat; While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
8  "Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?" "Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along."
9  Despite Tom's affirmation of innocence, Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.
10  He polished off the whole pie.
11  Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
12  He had a finger in every pie at school, from dramatics to football.
13  Serve the pie with whipped cream.
14  He wants a bigger share of the pie.
15  For dessert there's a fruit pie of some sort.