Sentence examples for Pretty adept from inspiring English sources

In the process, Evan himself gets pretty adept at bullying and rejecting.

After nearly a century as a wandering revenant, Simpson is pretty adept at listening to and helping these people, transporting them "down through hellfire to the beach".

Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with rugby realises that Jonny Wilkinson's boot would have counted for little were he not pretty adept at putting his shoulder into the tackle.

But we all get pretty adept at putting on a coping facade to doctors and to our friends.

I've always had a very practical side of my brain, so while some other artists might struggle with the business side of things, I'm pretty adept at it.

"You become pretty adept at finding a convenient bush," she says, "and I'm sure there'll be plenty of vine leaves nearby should I need them".

I didn't get all the way down Pico that year but I made it pretty far: far enough that I became a fairly adept judge of Salvadoran pupusas, learned the difference between Mexican-Chinese fried rice and Cuban-Chinese fried rice, and learned that soju poured from battered tea kettles was in fact the ideal accompaniment to goat stew.

If Federer was a boxer, he wouldn't just have quick hands and a pretty left hook, he'd also be adept at soaking up punishment.

North Korea has "proven adept over the years at using force in pretty calibrated ways to achieve political objectives," said Thomas Mahnken, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, which does war-game planning.

England is also increasingly adept at this style, with Devon's Lyme Bay's delicately pretty Pinot Noir Rosé 2015 (£15.50, Hennings Wine) among the best of the local bunch.

Helen is a capable nurse, adept at changing urine-soaked sheets and preparing appetising dishes on her prettiest crockery.