Sentence examples for pretty proper from inspiring English sources

Rose-Scented Berry Tart With an Almond Shortbread Crust: A pretty, proper tart.

He chooses the pretty, proper divorcée from Grosse Pointe, Mich., as his "shiksa" trophy, someone he can show off to his socialite friends — sometimes literally in his trophy room.

There you have George Bernard Shaw's messages within the comedy of "Arms and the Man," one of his early "pleasant plays," as he called them, first staged in 1894 and currently being given a pretty, proper and joyously funny production by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.

She resents the influence of her genteel aunt Alexandra, who loathes dirt and wishes that her niece would play with stoves and tea sets; is disgusted by her hateful, elderly, and bedridden neighbor, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose; and ridicules her first-grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, a "peppermint drop" of a pretty, proper young woman.

Pretty, proper French macarons: Ladurée, the Parisian pastry shop and tearoom known for its colorful macarons, has plans to open a store in Los Angeles at the Grove.

Young women hover in and out of doorways, with the siren charms of the young, pretty and proper.

Though pretty and proper, it also hints at the couple's political sensibilities: "In lieu of gifts, the bride and groom encourage donations to Doctors Without Borders".

(Princeton students went to Fort Sill with dress uniforms; we looked good, and most of us with cars got dates out of that dance). I never had met a farm girl before, and my date was both pretty and proper.

— At the high school in this small, pretty and proper-looking town near Boston, a student was being choked by another student — with the school's permission.

In fact there's an irony that while Zuckerberg (seen below in front of Langer) admittedly came up with Facebook, the Groups application on Facebook remains pretty poor for proper group management.

But for this section we're NOT mentioning places that will have a long line or will turn you away for not having a pretty face or proper attire.