Example Sentences

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Test customers spurned one attempt, an experimental chicken pot-pie; the next idea, bone-in fried chicken, veered too close to the existing menu at rival KFC.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2012

He slid into the lunch line, grabbed a tray, and tossed on a bag of chips, mac and cheese, a pudding cup, and something the serving guy claimed was chicken pot-pie.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Put layers of chicken, potato slices, sliced onion and squares of pot-pie dough.

From Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown

The day after the whipping and the pigeon pot-pie, when the sun shone warm at noon, the fire was allowed to go down in the stove.

From The Hoosier School-boy by Eggleston, Edward

This becomes a pot-pie by adding biscuit-crust as in rule for veal pot-pie, p.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen