Sentence examples for pretty much literally from inspiring English sources

When Fadell says that Nest is his life, he means it pretty much literally.

We touched down and drove onto the grass, where we disembarked and walked along the runway, pretty much literally dodging planes.

The best part about this Boston Red Sox season has been closer Koji Uehara who has been pretty much literally been unhittable on the mound an a clearly awesome personality with his celebratory high-fives.

BLOWING IN THE WIND: "The Angel's Game," Carlos Ruiz Zafón's tale of a writer who pretty much literally sells his soul to the devil in 1920s Barcelona, enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 3, trailing plenty of smoky back-alley atmosphere and a chorus of mixed reviews.

"Don, don, don, don, Don Quijote... .. Akihabara Yodobashi owns this side of the station, pretty much literally.

Whatever was happening to these children was "pretty much, literally, exactly, what polio did," said Dr. Jean-Baptiste Le Pichon, a child neurologist who treated four such patients in 2014 at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

"Literally, pretty much every government office – national, provincial, city level – will try to contact you if they have your number," complained an industry figure, joking that senior staff hate to give out business cards as a result.

Bird takes it a bit too literally by pretty much choking Williams in the high tackle.

Never a shrinking violet, Mr. Hampson pretty much took matters in hand, literally, often going beyond the gestures you might expect of a singer to, well, conduct the orchestra.

Dell's D620 ATG (All-Terrain Grade) laptop is a response to Panasonic's infamous line of ToughBook computers that can take pretty much anything thrown at them (literally).

Not literally, but pretty much.