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

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

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

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