Sentence examples for pretty persistent from inspiring English sources

"He's pretty persistent, your Gentleman Caller".

"He was pretty persistent," she said.

This suggests three million years of pretty persistent brain expansion.

It has to be said the smog was pretty persistent.

Many concerned parents came to ask for help, she says, "but I was a pretty persistent one, going back, and calling Steve and saying, 'What are we doing here?' I am, by nature, a pest".

I'm also pretty persistent, so I added that in there for good measure.

I had to be pretty persistent in order to get her to say yes.

"There is something pretty persistent about the marriage of imagery and words and timing," Bloomberg Businessweek's editor Josh Tyrangiel said.

And this is all of course the day after a friend casually said to me about a career in comedy and activism, "You have to be pretty persistent in your field, don'tcha?" And I literally spit coconut juice out my nose.

Methods of lovemaking, styles of cuisine, even manners of speech: these are grist for the mill of European jealousies and jibes, neither harmless nor pretty but persistent nonetheless.

The founders must have used them to punch out emails on the icy Hague metro every day of the past month because they were pretty darn persistent.