Sentence examples for pretty foreign from inspiring English sources

Back in 1993, a TV shopping channel was a pretty foreign concept.

On paper, our little band looks pretty foreign: out of the four of us, three are foreign-born.

"There were passages, literally, about milking, plowing — things that were pretty foreign to Harlem kids," she said.

"They are very learned people and the imagination of building a business or capitalism is pretty foreign to them.

Religious statements are rooted in a metaphysical system, an understanding of the universe, which is pretty foreign to the modern, liberal mind.

Since 1993 he has been experimenting with Western contemporary dance, performing in Africa and Europe, but the first work he presented in New York, after he moved there in 2009, still looked pretty foreign.

I'm for a pretty robust foreign policy.

"When people say, 'We did well with that book,' and you see that they only sold 300 copies, then they must have had some pretty big foreign rights sales," David Rosenthal, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said sarcastically.

The leaders talked on the phone over the weekend, and she apparently had to explain to him some pretty basic foreign policy facts.

While almost everyone knows that the Olympics' promise of prestige, tourism revenues, and eternal stardom is a pile of b.s., Sochi was infamously thrashed by dozens of — admittedly pretty obnoxious — foreign journalists.

The tradecraft seems pretty pedestrian for foreign service hotshots — Toby is constantly trying to figure out what's going on by Googling names he comes across.