pieing in a sentence
Examples
- In 1970, Forcade became one of the first people to use pieing as a form of protest, hitting Chairman Otto Larsen during the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
- Erakat was invited by " Quest Nutrition " to unveil their newest protein bar flavor by allowing him to prank other popular YouTube personalities, namely by pieing them in the face.
- In addition, the show often featured pieing-related variations on games such as Musical Chairs, Simon Says, Rock, Paper, Scissors, and " One potato, two potato ".
- On July 26, 2010, the Florida Marlins left fielder Chris Coghlan injured himself while pieing teammate Wes Helms after Helms's single won the game in the bottom of the 11th inning.
- In his opening statement Wednesday morning, defense lawyer Mark Vermeulen told the jury that the defendants had been using " pieing " as a platform for their protests of Brown's policies on homeless people.
- The first example of pieing in San Francisco I could find involved Jack London, and the way the great writer wielded a pie makes an interesting comparison to recent pie attacks by the so-called Biotic Baking Brigade on Brown and city Supervisor Gavin Newsom.
- After pieing himself and later a Girl Scout selling cookies, Homer is asked by Burns to pie Tibetan Buddhism spiritual teacher, the Dalai Lama ( because according to Mr . Burns " all his talk of peace and love is honking off my Red Chinese masters " ).
- By contrast, Thursday's pieing of the Procter & Gamble chairman, John E . Pepper, at an awards banquet in Columbus, Ohio, was the work of an activist protesting P & G's use of live animals in product testing.
- Although pieing may be intended as a simple practical joke, it can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against perceived arrogance or vanity.
- "The pie gives power back to the people because so many feel powerless in the face of big politicians and industrialists ", explained Pope-Tart ( a pseudonym ), a member of the Entartistes . " Newsweek " columnist Gersh Kuntzman wrote that pieing " deserves to be one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture ."