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Example sentences for "pretty little"

  • This is my mother," he said with a pretty little gesture.

  • I might, perhaps," she answered, with a pretty little shrug.

  • Without a trace of embarrassment the girl smiled and with a pretty little bending of her head, held down her hand to the astonished Banker, who sat speechless upon his mattress.

  • Clara Pulleyn was then a pretty little maiden of sixteen, and Jack a handsome guardsman of six or seven and twenty.

  • She was so smart, and they told him she made a pretty little pot of pin-money by her songs; he called it very clever of her.

  • Here's a poor devil whose mistress has just been telling him a pretty little story of her husband; walk up, walk up!

  • A pretty little roll of that 'r' but no enthusiasm.

  • Frisk about, pretty little mousekin," says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes.

  • Strings of coral and other beads encircled his neck, and a pretty little crucifix of seed beads hung on his bosom.

  • At the usual hour of the following day, April 17th, they quitted Jadoo, and in the middle of the day arrived at a clean, pretty little village, called Pooya.

  • It was a pretty little cove, enclosed by two tiny headlands, forming a miniature landlocked bay, hidden from view of the lake beyond.

  • Yet he was deceived, for he supposed that his mother's pretty little porte-monnaie held all the bank-bills and all the silver she had in the world.

  • Horace laughed when Mr. Lazelle called him "a pretty little fellow," and thought it a fine joke.

  • Long ago this dry and hard-looking old maid had a little sister like Daisy--a pretty little lass, who went away to play in the heavenly gardens many and many a year ago.

  • He made his little plan with a sigh, but he would have done more than this for the sake of pretty little Daisy.

  • There now, pretty little dear, you're better, aren't you?

  • She took her great golden scissors, cut up a piece of silk, and made a pretty little bag of it.

  • He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot.

  • On she sailed past several towns, and the little birds sitting in the bushes saw her, and sang, 'What a pretty little girl!

  • So, to prevent this, they placed in a pretty little room of which Saphir was very fond a little mirror in a black frame, such as were often brought from Venice.

  • I put twenty-five Louis in a pretty little purse, and left my room thinking that the victory was won.

  • He made no answer, but led the way to a pretty little room, and without requiring me to kneel down said he was ready to hear me.

  • I have heard a pretty little story of an attempt of hers to lighten somewhat Her Majesty's heavy cloud of mourning.

  • He speaks of her as "a pretty little girl," and does not seem particularly "set up" by her compliments.

  • I remember a pretty little story, told by a tourist, who happened to be stopping at the village of Brading during one of those visits to the lovely island.

  • Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolving views reflected in the lake.

  • John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretty little" 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:
    bark canoe; brought here; fast enough; her mistress; ideal beauty; independent life; pretty betimes; pretty birds; pretty brother; pretty certain; pretty close; pretty face; pretty fellow; pretty girl; pretty hard; pretty high; pretty large; pretty little; pretty maiden; pretty much; pretty nigh; pretty picture; pretty rose; pretty sight; pretty woman; section five