Sentence examples for pretty much tied from inspiring English sources

"The recession has pretty much tied folks down to survival mode," said Steve Cash, the executive director of the Henry Council for Quality Growth, who is white.

He did have a point: he pretty much tied Romney in Ohio, while being badly outspent, and won North Dakota and, more important, Tennessee.

"It seems to me the sell-off today was pretty much tied to trading the relationship between the dollar index and the stock market," said James W. Paulsen, the chief investment strategist for Wells Capital Management.

"The rest is pretty much tied to Treasury rates, and those are probably going to underperform in a market like this where Treasury rates are low and the Federal Reserve is intent on keeping them low".

Clinton won older voters (the over-65s) by 18 points and pretty much tied Sanders among those aged between 44 and 65 years, two crucial groups in the low-voting states ahead.

This was five points lower than the figure for Clinton, but once you allow for margins of error the two candidates are pretty much tied when it comes to disapproval and untrustworthiness.

Page and Jones pretty much tie for astonishing pre-Zep employment, thanks to their ubiquity on the session scene in the 1960s.

Ross Douthat's column about the social differences between family life in the red versus the blue states ("Red Family, Blue Family," May 10) pretty much ties those differences to the relative rate of abortion with the greater availability and use of abortion services in the liberal blue states.

"If you had a situation where Mexico is significantly depleting the aquifer and the aquifer is not being significantly depleted in Texas, it pretty much ties your hands on the Texas side in the long term, to manage that resource," he said.

"What we've got to do with our legislation is pretty much tie it to two things," said Randal Kuykendall, a veteran lobbyist hired by Marijuana Policy Project to advocate for new legislation in Texas.

Interestingly, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which pretty much always is tied at the hip to the Legion, disagreed.