2 Sentences With "half pie"

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The glider featured two wooden parallel trusses running along its spine, with two widely spaced truss wing spars. Wing ribs were attached to the spar with varnished shoelaces. The wing shape featured a straight leading edge with the trailing edge tapering back to the tail giving it a distinctive "Half Pie" appearance from the top. The vertical stabilizers were low, but ran the full length of the fuselage on either side with small canard like control surfaces at the leading edge.
Although previously in common usage it became an iconic phrase of support following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. Some hybrid words, part English and part Māori, have developed, the most common of which is probably half-pai -- often written half-pie -- meaning incomplete or substandard quality, pai being the Māori word for "good". (The portmanteau form half-pied is also used, derived from half-baked.) Similarly, the Māori word ending -tanga, which has a similar meaning to the English ending -ness, is occasionally used in hybrid terms such as kiwitanga (that is, the state of being a New Zealander). Several Māori words are used in English as lighthearted, or even slang, equivalents of their more common English counterparts.