How to use "pretty" in a sentence

She ran fast and after a short time, she came to a pretty little house

'You'll hit its pretty nose!'

It was a strange little thing and not very pretty

'It wasn't a pretty baby, but it's quite a pretty pig,' thought Alice.

And who do you think I saw in the school cafe? Jenny Curran! She was all grown-up now, with pretty black hair, long legs, and a beautiful face

A pretty girl came up to our table, and the Colonel thought she was a waitress.

It's a really pretty house with a big garden.

It began 'Dear Boss' and there was a postscript which included the sentence 'What a pretty necklace I gave her'

'You have two very pretty children, Madame,' a voice said from close beside her.

The mother was young and pretty, but she looked poor and unhappy

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

It was like a palace to her, with its bright lights, shining glass and pretty objects

He gave his neighbour, a pretty woman, a bunch of flowers, which greatly annoyed her husband.

He tries to picture Emily: her eyes are so loving, her laugh so light and pretty

The wife is a pretty little thing with red hair

The secretary, a young and pretty blonde, enters the room and sits by the table

His wife Rhea is a good woman and pretty too, but sometimes he cannot help but look at Junior and wonder.

'Maxim said in his letter that you were very young and pretty

'If you look pretty, I don't mind what you put on,' he told me.

I wanted something that was pretty and simple too.

'Here, this blue dress is very pretty

You're very pretty!'

That was the term by which casino employees still referred to local, elderly women whose social lives revolved around an obsessive interest in one-armed bandits, even though the nickel machines were pretty much ancient history

She had done a pretty damn good job of it too.

She was pretty much convinced of that.

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

He somewhat resembled Robert Redford, almost too pretty

He's been drinking pretty regularly, but he's so deep in a trance that he can completely ignore the call of nature until - bingo! - He has a bladder spasm

He had adored only the showgirl, the dancer, the cute little thing that other men coveted, the pretty woman whose presence at his side had inflated his ego

"Maybe the past wasn't so great, but the future seems pretty damn good."

"You have a pretty high opinion of me."

The body was still in pretty good condition

"You have a pretty high opinion of me," he said, repeating what she had said to him earlier.

They appeared to be genuinely surprised by this news, and Elliot was pretty sure they weren't the people who had been trying to scare Tina

Elliot had a pretty good idea of what it would feel like, and he was sweating under his arms and in the small of his back, but he didn't move, and he didn't respond to the stranger's taunting.

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

If you put a secret installation in the middle of all that lonely land, you have a pretty easy job maintaining security."

Even a primarily good government, when it's big enough, has some pretty mean sharks swimming in the darker currents

"Well, they'd have had to be pretty stupid to think murder was the safest way to handle it

Those might not be the precise circumstances, but they're pretty damn close to the truth."

"Because pretty soon you'll be saying he's God."

You argued your case pretty well."

I know some pretty damn intelligent people believe in ESP, but I don't

He stopped to have a word with a strikingly pretty cocktail waitress, and she smiled at him

"We have a pretty good hold on him

Maybe it was really pretty near the surface."

It wasn't a pretty job, but it also wasn't without a measure of real dignity and heroism

She is twenty years younger than I am, very pretty, and unable to take anything seriously.

Lettice is a pretty girl, tall and fair and delicate

A pretty servant answered the door.

We found a pretty place

We spent the night at Clifton Hampdon, which is a pretty village.

But they are very pretty

Are those shoes the old pair which were new a couple of months ago? Or are they the newest pair? And here she is herself, the pretty one

She isn't as pretty, but her hair, eyes, and figure are exactly like Laura's.'"

She's not as pretty, and she's very ill, but still she looks very similar.'

She was a pretty blonde lady with blue eyes, but she looked very weak

He said, "Tell Mr Hartright to stay away from me! If I must put your pretty sister back in the asylum to stop Mr Hartright from investigating me, I shall do so