PIED in a Sentence

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74 example sentences for PIED, such as:

1. He polished off the whole pie.
2. At the stall where they sell pies.
3. Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
4. She told us a simple method for making a pie crust.
5. I am cooking apple pies with my newly bought frying pan.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pied
 a.  having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolored
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  They slid on, in and out between the stalks, silver; pink; gold; splashed; streaked; pied.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
2  She told with accents of horror how, before Rene Picard came home from the war, Mrs. Merriwether and Maybelle had made ends meet by baking pies and selling them to the Yankee soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Now that Rene was home, he drove an old wagon to the Yankee camp every day and sold cakes and pies and beaten biscuits to the soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  But you weren't raised to sell pies any more than Tommy was raised to wrastle with a bunch of wild Irish masons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  He's thinking that I'm sticking my finger in other people's pies again and so is Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
6  She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  Ye see, there's pints in all pies, Mas'r George; but tan't everybody knows what they is, or as orter be.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  I an't afraid to put my cake, nor pies nother, 'long side no perfectioner's.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  Chichikov looked up, and saw that the table was spread with mushrooms, pies, and other viands.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
11  At the stall where they sell pies.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
12  A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real doppelkummel.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
13  Just wait ten years, and see if we don't, said Amy, who sat in a corner making mud pies, as Hannah called her little clay models of birds, fruit, and faces.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
14  Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
15  The soupe Marie-Louise was a splendid success; the tiny pies eaten with it melted in the mouth and were irreproachable.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The pied piper of Hamelin got his name from the multicolored clothing he wore.
2  The workers were - pied in building new houses.
3  These days, white flour is considered unhealthy - so it's perfect for junk foods like fruit pies.
4  I am cooking apple pies with my newly bought frying pan.
5  The pie diagram shows the level of spending on health in Japan.
6  They're in collusion with the government and just want a piece of the pie like everyone else.
7  So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper with the family, and was just old pie to him, so to speak.
8  You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.
9  When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon.
10  She told us a simple method for making a pie crust.
11  The Panther took pie crust, and gravy, and meat; While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
12  "Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?" "Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along."
13  Despite Tom's affirmation of innocence, Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.
14  He polished off the whole pie.
15  Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.