shoofly

Example Sentences

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The removal of the gas line in turn has delayed construction of temporary freight track, called a shoofly, for Union Pacific Railroad.

From Los Angeles Times

Since then, the area’s tourism industry, offering traditional treats like shoofly pies and buggy rides, has boomed.

From New York Times

We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie.

From Salon

Molasses used to appear on the menu in shoofly pie, but “people weren’t feeling it,” Mr. Scott said.

From New York Times

At the local diner, where eggs, hash browns and toast were on special for $1.79 and the refrigerated display case featured shoofly pie, suspicion of the president ran deep.

From New York Times