Sentence examples for pretty distinguished from inspiring English sources

This is pretty distinguished".

It was Mishal Husain, calmly compassionate in the blood-stained Peshawar school, who sealed the deal, and prompted the thought that, under Lord Hall and James Harding – from Ukraine to Syria, from Ebola to global chaos – BBC News had actually had a pretty distinguished 12 months.

"They're a pretty distinguished bunch of people".

The President also directly acknowledged the high esteem in which Koufax is held: :"This is a pretty fancy... pretty distinguished group," he said of the invited guests, which included members of the House and Senate, two justices of the Supreme Court, Olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, Rabbinical scholars, "and Sandy Koufax".

From cheating at Harvard to a Senate seat first secured by his family, to Chappaquidick to running around the compound in his skivvies while his nephew was being naughty, to a dashed presidential torch-carrying run, interspersed like annoying punctuation into a now very long and pretty distinguished career in politics.

Lily is the one who looks pretty!" The distinguished gentleman turned to my younger niece, who was now admiring her own dress, and said, "Lily, you also look very pretty".

Wilson joins governor Mark Sanford, who had a steamy extramarital affair with a pretty Argentine woman, in the large and distinguished club.

I must not speak of my neighbors now, on penalty of banishment, but on my staircase live a distinguished actor, a philosopher, the widow of a celebrated jeweler, three pretty girls from New York, the secretary to the trustees and myself.

That the dishonesty of distinguished old Wall Street firms such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns makes the Mafia look pretty straight.

If you're one of the brave souls who is exploring law schools, or the further distinguished brave ones that has already been accepted, the job market seems pretty bleak.

Andrew Hessel, a biotechnology analyst who is a distinguished researcher with San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk Inc., said the emerging field of 3D bioprinting is a "pretty wide open space" with different researchers "all dancing on multiple fronts at once".