apple-pie order

Example Sentences

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That exertion was easy compared with getting the farm in apple-pie order.

From Architectural Digest • Jun. 9, 2015

This week the corps had virtually every foot of the 1,200-mile North African railway system back in apple-pie order and running on schedule.

From Time Magazine Archive

After settling everything in apple-pie order in a mad hurry, they wait for hours for the colonel to make his appearance and see if the buttons are polished.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was carrying the fighting harness, which was strapped up in apple-pie order according to his own dodges and wrinkles—for, from now on, he was Lancelot’s squire.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White