Apple-pie

"Apple-pie" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Her sewing basket, dresser drawers and pantry shelves are all systematically arranged in apple-pie order.

They made me an apple-pie bed, the bastards!

Tea was served with a fragrant apple-pie.

Pat was always ready for fun, especially when it came to apple-pieing beds.

“There’s something the matter with the God[-]damned bed. I can’t get in.” He stood there, naked and cross in the candlelight. Martha turned back the covers. “They’ve apple-pied the bed.” “They’ve what?” “Apple-pied, short-sheeted. Didn’t you ever do that when you were young?” “The little brats.” “It’ll only take a minute of fix; it’s just the top sheet.”

At midnight, Elizabeth and her friends apple-pied the beds of her brother David and James, who was still being frustratingly elusive.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.