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Example sentences for "pretty near"

  • Here it is only February already and I feel it that the winter is pretty near over.

  • What is it to you I am pretty near killed in the street last night and must got to go to a hospital!

  • But she thought that it came from his confession about "pretty near crying.

  • You have made it pretty near impossible," he said, as he took his leave.

  • But I'd happened to come along, and he jumped me into the vacancy, and I expect he is pretty near consoled.

  • The man that keeps the store is a friend of mine," said the Virginian; "and you can be pretty near comfortable on his counter.

  • He whisked his red handkerchief about with such energy that its edges were pretty near in strips; and he blew his poor old nose in such repeated and violent fashions, that it clearly resembled a highly colored tomato.

  • I'm pretty near dead, but I'm still man enough to wring the neck of a skunk!

  • I been putting this Bull Hunter down for a half-wit, pretty near.

  • He liked it, and so I dressed him down and left him pretty near shining.

  • I'd like to if I could, but the way it looks now, you tell her I wouldn't be much surprised maybe I was startin' in with typhoid fever or pretty near anything at all.

  • We go crazy over so many different things we've really got to be a nation of cranks, pretty near, and every crank has to be got at on his specialty, if it's a possible thing.

  • He pretty near got my coat off in the struggle, and next moment the police-man 'ad turned his lantern on me and they was both staring at me as if they couldn't believe their eyesight.

  • You put this young feller up to it that he pretty near kills me.

  • You see, Mr. Merech, Jacobean chairs is pretty near so rare nowadays that it would pay me to wait a while.

  • He's pretty near as crazy on the subject as Maria is.

  • You are by this time, I hope, pretty near master of both, so that a small part of the day dedicated to them, for two years more, will make you perfect in that study.

  • I regret him as an old acquaintance, a pretty near relation, and a private man, with whom I have lived many years in a social and friendly way.

  • I shall confine this letter to another subject, pretty near akin to them, and which, I am sure, you are full as deficient in; I mean Style.

  • Every day, pretty near it, delivery boys comes knocking at the service door bringing this and that for Mr. Dallas.

  • Wherever I goes, pretty near everybody I meets, whites and blacks alike, asks me how about it and allows I'm powerful lucky to get such a chance.

  • That worked on my feelings so that I pretty near forgot to distribute the gloves to the mourners.

  • I say, you never heard such a yell as the balloon went scooting up into the sky, pretty near out of sight.

  • There's another rascal there that's pretty near as bad as he is.

  • You asked for the dead man's weight in silver, pretty near.

  • Sunday and this is the first time I have not felt sick since we got here and even at that my left arm is so sore it is pretty near killing me where I got vacinated.

  • Fact is, Charlie, we pretty near gave 'em to understand as we'd buy it.

  • But the long brick shed in the great muddy lot was for sale or to let, or "pretty near to be given away," he learned, if anybody would take it.

  • Look at the other girls' houses, and then look at our house, so shabby and old-fashioned she'd be pretty near ashamed to ask anybody to come in and sit down nowadays!

  • His improvement carried over the night: he slept well and awoke late, declaring that he was "pretty near a well man and ready for business right now.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretty near" 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:
    braw gallant; but now; capital punishment; cast iron; civil engineering; devolved upon; gracious smile; pretty certain; pretty child; pretty face; pretty fair; pretty fellow; pretty hard; pretty house; pretty lady; pretty maid; pretty near; pretty place; pretty rose; pretty thick; pretty thing; pretty well; seek the; silence fell; soon began; two inches