Sentence examples for pretty distant from inspiring English sources

Jamaica came second, but a pretty distant second.

But that was pretty distant, and a very faint memory.

Dads were pretty distant, a bit like Mad Men.

The names "Mudhoney" and "Norah Jones" represent pretty distant points on the musical spectrum.

The chances of Nicholas Sparks changing his formula now seem pretty distant.

The threat of rising inflation is still pretty distant: it doesn't provide a justification to rush things.

The mood of "Distant" is pretty well summed up in the title, and while "Climates" begins in warm sunshine, it feels most at home in the wintry landscape of its final scenes.

Echoes of Mr. Borden's Minimalist roots peek through in the repeating, sometimes mechanistic synthesizer lines, but change is constant in these pieces, which draw on instrumental sounds (a synthesizer can do a bassoon pretty convincingly) and effects (distant thunder, for example).

Post-Vaughanists include some promising players in or barely out of their teens, including Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang (both of whom are blond and pretty enough to be distant relatives of Hanson), Monster Mike Welch and Derek Trucks, nephew of the splendidly-named Allman Brothers band drummer Butch Trucks.

FROM the shores of Lake Geneva, where the World Trade Organisation (WTO) makes its home, the Swiss Alps look almost too pretty to be true: a distant, gleaming skyline waiting for a chocolate box to adorn.

Although the new discoveries are an antidote to "stereotypical thinking" about cowering, timid mammals, he says, it is still true that our distant ancestors stayed pretty small until the monstrous dinosaurs were safely out of the way.