Sentence examples for pretty crude from inspiring English sources

Only when doctors worked out how to back up the surgeon's knife with drugs and radiation did cancer begin to succumb to treatment albeit, to start with, in a pretty crude fashion.Now, however, that crudeness is rapidly giving way to sophistication, as a new wave of cancer treatments comes to market.

"It's been really pretty crude," he says.

Admittedly, digital advertising 1.0 was pretty crude.

The tech for the fat conversion was pretty crude.

I mean, that's pretty crude, too, you know?

Granted, we're still pretty crude jewelers by comparison.

But that's a pretty unsatisfactory, crude estimate of what's happening, and another argument for establishing a baseline of what species exist and where is so that we can have pretty precise measures of the rates of extinction, which habitats are being impacted most, and which taxa are suffering most.

"They're pretty rude and crude.

Even though female comedians often place themselves at the butt of the joke, according to Griffin, that doesn't mean they don't still want to be "pretty" while being crude or un-ladylike.

"It's a pretty basic car, quite crude, really.

Kelly's armor, though crude, remained pretty much the state of the art for decades: if you wanted to be truly bulletproof, you needed moldboards or the equivalent.