Adjective : apple-pie virtues; an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.    From Dictionary.com. 

The latter felt proud this morning of its apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

And besides, I'm in apple-pie shape for the race right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference

On board the Yankee every thing was kept in apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

Everything was in apple-pie order, as I had known it would be.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROUND THE BEND]

And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

I don't know if the apple-pie kinda crust comes in a shell form.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Gimme some sugar' cream Pie] Reference

I've never heard short-sheeting called an "apple-pie bed" before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reaching New Depths - A Dress A Day] Reference

Perhaps we will see soon a paper entitled: non-gaussian apple-pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Map « Climate Audit] Reference

Well, not necessarily, if your writing is not in apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » So they’ve asked you to send chapters – and a request for your help] Reference

Everything was in apple-pie order, ready for immediate occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Property] Reference

Can he keep things in apple-pie order, and do half-a-dozen at once?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

"Everything in apple-pie order so far as the books go," he observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference

Phillippe has the all-American, apple-pie looks and is in terrific shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Ryan Phillippe As CAPTAIN AMERICA? | Obsessed With Film] Reference

But he found that his machine could be readily put in apple-pie condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference

"I should like to know," cried he, "what are you doing in my fine apple-pie.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

I'm a regular corker at all sorts of tricks, from apple-pie beds to booby traps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

Survivors bless the rod, an 'fix up everythin' round the house in apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

"Every girl ought to keep herself and her things in apple-pie order," Mrs. Nott said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Robin] Reference

Head Start, for instance, is no longer a "" liberal '' issue; it's an apple-pie issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Of Family Values] Reference

"Alack, what has happened to my apple-pie?" cried he; and his tears fell round as round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

Everything was in "apple-pie order" when the party returned, apparently in fine spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

If you have an interior chapter that is already in apple-pie order, include that instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to Write a Book Proposal, Part V: The rest of it] Reference

Sir Harold had left everything in apple-pie order, and his son anticipated little trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

I noted that the richly upholstered and dark-wood furnishings were in neat, apple-pie order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 6th Target]

Then the apple-pie was finished, and in the oven; and Wry-Face ran outside as fast as he could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

But then if you take a good sour apple and stew it and sugar it, it makes a first-class apple-pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

Kevin Phillips sees the rise of what he calls "apple-pie authoritarianism" in the name of pure democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [People's Politics] Reference

In a tentative way she was in revolt against an apple-pie order of existence which was being forced upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

I choose to ignore that fact and INSIST that apple-pie is an AMERICAN dish because I have a narrative to save!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » CNN’s Crowley Suggests Democrats Debated Afghanistan Exit Strategy To ‘Make The Massa Story Go Away’] Reference

So he fetched the apple-pie from the pantry, and set it upon the table; and presently he sat down to his meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

The Question Time audience claps for anything that's motherhood and apple-pie as long as it's delivered punchily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Jenny Tonge Should be Abolished] Reference

And he forgot for a moment how tired he was, thinking how delightful it was to sit down to a supper of apple-pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

I have no faith in mothers whose rooms are in apple-pie order, and who themselves might have stepped out of a bandbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

Beneath the “feel good” facade of baseball, apple-pie, mom, and Chevrolet lurks this sinister reality of the American Way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

The scent swings from apple-pie wholesomeness to spicy hookah langour, all on a sinful amber vanilla background; I want to devour it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

And over the past few years, the new ones popping up like malignant mushrooms made those older ones look positively apple-pie ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

Having arrived to find everything in apple-pie order, as Louisa May Alcott liked to say, I was genuinely stunned at the flurry of activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2009 » June] Reference