How to Use a piece/slice/share of the pie in a Sentence

a piece/slice/share of the pie

noun phrase
  • Everyone wants a slice of the pie, and there isn't enough for all.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Even people with small followings can get a piece of the pie.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 13 May 2022
  • However, even small home care agencies can get a piece of the pie.
    Karina Tama-Rutigliano, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Well, there’s no better way to help people thrive than by giving them a piece of the pie.
    Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • With billions of dollars at stake, everyone wants a piece of the pie.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The calendar is expanding as every country wants a piece of the pie.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And for the first time, a giant gaming company is allowing creators to get a piece of the pie.
    Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Hymenoplasty is a profitable business, and there are plenty of practices that want a piece of the pie.
    Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and everyone wants in on the Swift money machine.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Aiming for the young and reckless with money, the NFL is simply trying to get a piece of the pie.
    Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026
  • To finalize a deal, Caballero and Wicks worked together to craft two bills that promised each coalition a slice of the pie.
    Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The restrictions have created a rush for trainers, known as buscones, to grab a piece of the pie years before the players are eligible to sign.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • The bidding process opened in late June, and there is time until November 5 to share a slice of the pie—and then a year to deliver the project.
    Luca Zorloni, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • But, as groups tussled for a slice of the pie, local tensions flared, writes historian Eiichiro Azuma.
    H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
  • As Cincinnati annexed more surrounding communities, new neighborhoods wanted a piece of the pie.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 1 May 2023
  • Other industries had already lost too big a piece of the pie to companies like Apple, Google, or Amazon, after all.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Nowadays, everything from Call of Duty to Tetris has a version retrofitted to the trend; everyone wants a piece of the pie.
    Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
  • This gives more people a piece of the pie and gives these companies more exposure because one hundred college athletes are going to have a larger following than just my one account.
    Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In exchange for a piece of the pie (company ownership and potential profit), companies are able to raise capital from selling shares to cover their costs and expand their business.
    Ivana Pino, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Blockchain, robotics, quantum computing and the next frontier of tech convergence are all set to make up a piece of the pie that is disproportionately greater than their share of the conversation today.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, healthcare data has exploded since the rise of EHRs, and technology companies of all sizes are eager to get a piece of the pie—though perhaps not all in the same way.
    Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.d., Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Purists don’t want to see these gimmicky fights become the future of the sport, but when the financial reward of fighting the Jake Paul’s of the world is so high, more professional boxers are bound to want a piece of the pie.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
  • VCs began pouring their funds into the AI gold rush; everyone wanted a piece of the pie and had strong expectations of a significant return on investment.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Up until the point that the market shattered and dozens of competing streaming services popped up to take a piece of the pie, the company was poised to almost completely dominate not only the streaming sphere but the television industry as a whole.
    Oleg Mikhailenko, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Understanding The Competitive Landscape The global flow of capital is finite, and with so many economies vying for a slice of the pie, the competition is fierce.
    Majeed Javdani, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The larger issue being his potentially sexist statements and the fact that CNN saw how much noise Kerry’s audition was making on the internet and simply wanted a piece of the pie.
    Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Yet in recent years, as is his wont, Udonis Haslem has not been shy about seeking a piece of the pie, although not necessarily interested that a piece of the multibillion-dollar pie requires, by league rule, at least a one-percent investment.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The scramble is on for Zimbabwe’s billion dollar remittance industry with local and international fintech institutions vying for a share of the pie against legacy banks and traditional money transfer agencies.
    Tawanda Karombo, Quartz, 6 July 2022

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