Sentence examples for a pretty severe from inspiring English sources

"He's paid a pretty severe price up to this date.

This amounts to a pretty severe HR headache.

That's a pretty severe punishment all by itself.

She argued that life without parole was, in fact, a pretty severe punishment.

"At the same time, morale takes a pretty severe hit any time you have layoffs.

"I had a friend growing up who had a pretty severe stutter," he told me recently.

It was a pretty serious business, severe and theoretical: Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs," an iconic early example, consists of a folding chair placed against a wall, a photograph of the same chair on the wall to one side of it, and a dictionary definition of "chair," enlarged and hung on the wall to the other side.

It's about a dog who goes through a series of pretty severe trials and tribulations and it made us cry.

"Segregation is unfortunately still very much with us now, and a lot of it is a reflection of pretty severe and persistent discrimination and segregation in housing, because of the strong link between housing patterns and school assignments," Parker said.

Foundation repair companies report a doubling and tripling of their business in the last two decades with no let-up even during the recession "We've seen a tremendous influx of pretty severe cases due to either drought or too much rain," said Dan Jaggers, vice president of technical services at Olshan Foundation Repair, which has offices in the South, Midwest and Great Plains.

But Rand Paul, I think, has got a proposal that was pretty severe.