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
He would not let her touch them, and he insisted on apple-pie neatness, so the poor creature was obliged to vacuum, dust, and polish around them.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
