Sentence examples for pretty or very from inspiring English sources

Even in an informal context, adding a modifier like "pretty" or "very" undermines the meaning of the word.

She's not very pretty or very big but she just tries.

A total of 65% of voters are at least somewhat, pretty or very willing to support a candidate for President who is not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton...When the survey respondents were given a ballot test between Trump, Clinton, and a third party independent candidate, Trump received 34%, Clinton 31%, the independent 21%, and 13% unsure".

The number of subjects stating a pretty or very good balance (score 4 and 5) increased from five at baseline to nine at nine months.

Make them very pretty, or very strong, or whatever the girl who are talking to wants themselves.

As customers left a store, a small sign asked them to rate their experience by pressing one of the buttons (very happy, pretty happy, pretty unhappy, or very unhappy), and that was all.

Are they not at all sure, a little sure, somewhat sure, pretty sure, or very sure that they could say no to having sex with someone if they want to date that person?

The International Monetary Fund says Brexit would either be pretty bad or very bad.

Companies have to be pretty lucky or very unusual not to have a rival.

According to the latest CNN/Opinion Research poll, 69% of those surveyed believe things in the country are going "pretty badly" or "very badly".

The share of whites, for example, telling pollsters in recent years that they are "not too happy" -- as opposed to "pretty happy" or "very happy" -- has been about 10 percent.