Sentence examples for pretty much by from inspiring English sources

Pretty much by definition, a lawn is unnatural.

And they arrived at this point pretty much by accident.

Pretty much by definition, gerrymandering suits those in power.

So, pretty much by default, the banks' creditors had to be tapped.

Patients are pretty much by definition having an awful time of it.

I've been pretty much by myself for the last year and a half, though.

Mr. Urbain became keeper of the Notre-Dame bells pretty much by accident.

I got to be that lucky guy pretty much by default.

He is obviously learning the ropes; his motions are pretty much by-the-instruction-book.

(The rest are hoping to sell out to a greater fool, a strategy which admittedly made a few people wealthy during the South Seas tulip bubble and the dotcom boom, but pretty much by definition was a loser for most).

The first time I played Rayman, it was August 1997; I was nine years old and had acquired pretty much by chance (thanks, mum!)—a demo of the original game through a copy of Official PlayStation Magazine.