apple-pie
Example Sentences
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It could have raised funds it needed elsewhere, through traditional, home-spun, apple-pie American institutions like private equity behemoths.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023
But even now, the findings have a gentle, apple-pie allure.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
He’s a pleasingly inoffensive, nonthreateningly masculine, apple-pie type, but like so many all-American commodities, there’s more lurking in that designation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
He wasn’t into the whole all-American, apple-pie look.
From Fox News ● Jan. 6, 2020
We had a good meal, a roast chicken, new green beans, mashed potatoes, a salad, and some apple-pie and cheese.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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