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

Representing the marriage of old-world traditions with the apple-pie aspirations of the new country, she took crown after crown.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray