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Examples pie examples
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Simple sentences
Does anyone want some more pie?
Aren't you going to eat that piece of pie?
I thought you'd like a piece of pie.
I'll save a piece of pie for you.
Have you eaten a banana pie?
Have you ever eaten a banana pie?
Tom got a small portion of pie.
Tim's employer promised him pie in the sky benefits.
That's a piece of pie.
It's as easy as pie.
Did you really bake the pie by yourself?
No one bakes a finer apple pie than Emily.
I made an apple pie for you.
I want to eat apple pie.
Who made this pie?
It's as easy as pie for him.
Will you have some more pie?
Cut the pie into slices.
Have you ever had cheese with apple pie?
Kate made an apple pie.
Please help yourself to some apple pie. I baked it for you.
She cooked her husband an apple pie.
Movie subtitles
How is a pie-eating contest training?
We challenge you to a pie-eating. Contest.
A guy gave his kidney, and. and, um. He developed an unexplainable appetite for pumpkin pie. Wouldn't eat anything else.
Just pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie, day after day.
I hate pumpkin pie.
Are you seriously talking about pie right now?
Do you think they ate the pie before, during or after the murder?
And, a half-eaten meat pie.
Was your father partial a meat pie?
Neither stomach contents suggests consumption of a meat pie.
Well, firstly, Speigleman would never touch a meat pie, and secondly, we can corroborate both of them as being present when Evan, or whoever was pretending to be Evan, dismounted the float.
I leave a meat pie at the scene of a crime and get someone else to be on the float.
Was leaving the pie a good or bad idea?
This bird McClure will be pie for him.
Are you going to eat your pie?
You've had two pieces of pie.
Thank you, sugar pie.
Or maybe someone else. ls it, sugar pie?
That was fine pie, Mother.
Apple pie?
Hello, lambie pie.
They're just playful, lambie pie.
Well, if it ain't old lambie pie, all dolled up.
Yes, and plum pudding and gooseberry pie.
Gooseberry pie?
About the size of a pie. - Ohh! It must've been darling.
I hope she said no. You can't trust none of them no further than I can kick this lemon pie.
He developed an unexplainable appetite for pumpkin pie.
Don't tell me the king of Spain is going to jump out of a pie.
You should've seen the parasol that came with it. - About the size of a pie. - Ohh!
What kind of pie you got?
It's pie!
Get your cake, pie, dill pickles and ice cream.
News and current affairs
This may sound like pie in the sky, but we have already tasted it in Africa, where Sierra Leone's Agenda for Prosperity 2013-2017 and the Liberia Vision 2030 exemplify the potential of such programs.
As the economic pie grows less rapidly, greater fairness will be crucial to social stability.
The problem is not only that the top income groups are getting a larger share of the economic pie, but also that those in the middle are not sharing in economic growth, while in many countries poverty is increasing.
Capital's piece of the pie has been getting bigger for more than 20 years, and the trend looks set to continue.
The traditional battle between labor and capital has been about the latter, with workers and owners fighting over their share of the pie.
But there is surprisingly deep inequality in firms' productivity, which means that the size of the pie varies radically.
In today's complex financial economies, representing workers' interests is not so simple as battling with management for a bigger share of the pie.
But increasing a pie's size does not guarantee that it will be shared fairly.
Indeed, much of the money that accrues to those at the top is what economists call rents, which arise not from increasing the size of the economic pie, but from grabbing a larger slice of the existing pie.
Under the Russian system, most taxes are centrally collected, so governors need good relations with federal authorities so as to maintain access to the ever-shrinking federal pie.
And the newly rich kept an increasing part of what they got, as taxes were slashed to encourage them to get still richer, and efforts to divide up the pie more fairly were abandoned.
This is pie in the sky.
Yet workers' share of the pie is falling, thanks to high unemployment, shortened working hours, and stagnant wages.
Clearly the students were uncomfortable about condoning a significant redistribution of income, even if the economic pie grew as a result.
Fetishizing globalization simply because it expands the economic pie is the surest way to delegitimize it in the long run.
This was tolerable as long as the overall pie was expanding, but the global financial crisis in 2008 ended that.
Similarly, one of the most important things that President Reagan did was to destroy much of the remaining power of America's labor unions, which compete for their share of the corporate pie.
Transforming France into a second America, on the other hand, is no more than a pie-in-the-sky dream that would be certain to end in failure and disarray - and that few French want in any event.
Now, following the companies' discovery of massive reserves, technocrats appointed by Yar'Adua to take charge of oil policy want Nigeria to get a larger slice of the pie.
While they may be getting a smaller share of the pie than they did in the past, the pie is growing so much, thanks to the contributions of the rich and superrich, that the size of their slice is actually larger.