Sentence examples for was pretty much born from inspiring English sources

I was pretty much born into a gymnastics gym because my mother was one of the British Gymnastics coaches.

So Malle was pretty much born into the fragrance business.

Famous for its unsparing, sardonic — and often obscene take on the news, politicians, and religion, Charlie Hebdo was pretty much born out of controversy, after its former incarnation, Hara-Kiri (subtitled "Stupid and vicious newspaper") was banned by the government in 1970 over an insulting headline about the death of former French president and military hero Charles de Gaulle.

("The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married"; "Parenthood is the opiate of the masses!") But they can't hold the book together.

I'd yet to experience a death in my own family and the bubble of certitude I had been born into was pretty much intact until I heard about the Biden deaths.

This, then, is a book that combines the virtues of distance and immediacy — the cool perspective that comes from investigating a war that was pretty much over before the author was born and the searing immediacy of being raised by a troubled veteran of that lost war.

Second, at this point it is pretty much common knowledge that Jesus was not born on Dec. 25, and that the holiday of Christmas as we know it today was pretty much stolen from many different pagan traditions.

That was pretty much fun.

It was pretty much undoable.

"He was pretty much feared".

I was pretty much obsessed.