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Example sentences for "pretty large"

  • When my uncle reached the end of Leith Walk, he had to cross a pretty large piece of waste ground which separated him from a short street which he had to turn down to go direct to his lodging.

  • There is a pretty large extent of ground.

  • Laguna is a pretty large well-compacted town, and makes a very agreeable prospect.

  • Petumbos are a yellow fruit (growing on a shrub like a vine) bigger than cherries with a pretty large stone.

  • Currecoos are waterfowls, as big as pretty large chickens, of a bluish colour, with short legs and tail; they feed also in swampy ground and are very good meat.

  • She lived at the top of the house, in a pretty large room, from which she had a glimpse of Lincoln's Inn Hall.

  • There is a capacious writing-table in the room on which is a pretty large accumulation of papers.

  • Towards evening we were in with a pretty large island.

  • The secretary turned to a pretty large pile of papers, and thus began: "Don Raymond Olivarez acknowledges from Cadiz receipt of letter No.

  • Nothing could be more simple than the interior of this quiet dwelling, as was sufficiently shown by the furniture of a pretty large room on the ground floor.

  • A pretty large pile of building, I opine, and a pretty long job!

  • The master of the workhouse, overhearing me, said he had had a pretty large experience of troops, and that better conducted men than these, he had never had to do with.

  • Bouton, or Booton, which is pretty large, and in the lat.

  • The isle of Quicarra, to the south of Quibo, is pretty large; and to the north of it is a small isle named Ranchina, which produces great plenty of certain trees called Palma-Maria.

  • Three years ago the crops were very bad; the people had not seed to sow their land with; and we brought in a pretty large quantity of seed-corn and potatoes, which we supplied to the people in Yell.

  • I may add that we sometimes do make bad debts to a pretty large amount.

  • You may have a pretty large number of men fishing to you, but you cannot convert their fish into money until perhaps the end of twelve months.

  • When my uncle reached the end of Leith Walk, he had to cross a pretty large piece of waste ground which separated him from a short street which he had to turn down, to go direct to his lodging.

  • None of them came empty; but Oo-oo-rou brought a pretty large present, this being his first and only visit.

  • When the tube is formed, or becomes visible, its apparent diameter increaseth till it is pretty large; after that it decreaseth, and at last it breaks or becomes invisible towards the lower part.

  • About four leagues to the east of this cape is a deep inlet, at the entrance of which lies a pretty large island, and some others of less note.

  • His father was just then reaching up very high to saw off a pretty large limb, and he paid no attention to what Rollo was saying.

  • He rolled out a pretty large log of wood, though it was not very long, and struck his axe into the end of it, as if he was going to split it.

  • But I don't think it will ever succeed; for the rock was part of a ledge in a pretty large hill.

  • Of birds we saw some terns and gulls, and even far out at sea a pretty large number of phalaropes--the most common kind of bird on the coast of the Asiatic Polar Sea, at least in autumn.

  • On the evening of the 23rd September we lay-to at a ground-ice in a pretty large opening of the ice-field.

  • The Vega, as will be seen from the description quoted farther on, is a pretty large vessel, which during the first part of the voyage was to be heavily laden with provisions and coal.

  • The raft alone had a pretty large quantity of wine, but not a single barrel of biscuit, and if any was put upon it, it was thrown off by the soldiers when they placed themselves upon it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretty large" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broad belt; came the; closed vessel; even years; little knowledge; mortal woman; natural classification; order the; past eleven; pretty considerable; pretty girl; pretty high; pretty lady; pretty maid; pretty maiden; pretty much; pretty near; pretty nearly; pretty strong; pretty sure; pretty thick; pretty things; pretty well; pretty woman; pretty young; sufficient time