Sentence examples for pretty illustrious from inspiring English sources

And not from so many ex-bankers, commercial real estate brokers and professors who, until recently, had pretty illustrious careers.

Since their debut record, "North Hills," came out two years ago, the Los Angeles-based folk-rock band Dawes has been eliciting breathless comparisons to some pretty illustrious names — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Eagles, the Band.

At the same time, its backers make for a pretty illustrious list.

GateGuru, founded in 2011, had raised at least $800,000 with backing from a pretty illustrious set of investors.

It's a startup, too: Axios announced in September 2016 that it would be launching with $10 million in funding from a pretty illustrious set of media-savvy tech investors.

That's a pretty illustrious group of investors for what may seem like a bit of an esoteric product at first, but Scalyr founder Steve Newman previously founded Writely, which he then sold to Google and which formed the basis for Google Docs.

What I mean by this is that Alan, despite having had a very illustrious footballing career, could pretty much just be any dad from anywhere across the country sitting behind the BBC desk having a vague opinion about a foul.

Nowadays, this stuff is pretty much forgotten, apart from its most illustrious flowering – the Mad Max films.

Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, chandoshouse.co.uk Home to one of the most illustrious studios in British cinema, Ealing was already pretty well-established on the movie map (the studio is still in operation).

In the rear-view mirror Created in 1929 and the oldest team in Formula One, Ferrari pride themselves on being quicker than everyone at pretty much everything except getting to the end of relating their illustrious history.

But Ledger, who recently finished playing the Joker in The Dark Knight, the new Batman movie, had proved that he was not just a pretty face, and there is no doubt that he would have had an illustrious career.