Sentence examples for pretty not only from inspiring English sources

Inwardly, the mother was a hard and disappointed person, the widow of a truck mechanic who'd died wretchedly of a brain tumor, but outwardly she was thirty-eight and pretty — not only prettier than Tanja but also closer in age to Horst.

"Much of it is pretty respectable — not only in the context of Beijing, but on a world scale".

Mrs Trew's transformation has been pretty dramatic; not only is she a director at the club, she's now a real football addict.

Cricket's hierarchies are pretty stable, not only in terms of the 10 nations that have full test status, but those that are next in the pecking order.

I began to feel pretty good, not only about my diagnostic acumen, but also about my ability to manage a family's illness.

"It's pretty funny, not only to make birdie on 16 in the final round but to celebrate and do something so over the top it ends up being a crowd pleaser.

It's pretty awesome: not only do you get real actors hamming it up (essentially, they sound like they're playing a game of cowboys and Indians), but you get a background soundtrack of clomping horse hooves.

These latest remarks about young people's indifference to gardening are pretty ironic, not only because of the lack of help and resources there, but also because of what happened to me after becoming the BBC Young Gardener of the Year.

The benefits for Noom of conducting a study like this are pretty clear: not only does it help people, but it could give their technology much more solid scientific footing.

But the fact that Cupertino is potentially looking to plant its flag in South Korea is pretty telling – not only because it's a big market in which the company has no proprietary retail presence, but also the fact that we're talking about Samsung's home turf here.

The neighborhood's objections were pretty clear: Not only were swingers coming to Madison, they were moving into an area bordering some playgrounds and a school.