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Example sentences for "pretty thing"

  • But it is a pretty thing to observe that both there and every where else, a man shall see many women now-a-days of mean sort in the streets, but no men; men being so afraid of the press.

  • Illustration: "Rooted out his umbrella and tucked Amanthus, pretty thing, onto his arm.

  • Having rooted out his umbrella and tucked Amanthus, pretty thing, onto his arm, Marcus here paused within the doorway and said backward over his shoulder mellowly to Selina and Juliette.

  • Rooted out his umbrella and tucked Amanthus, pretty thing, onto his arm" 118 "A covered wooden bridge across the river .

  • Here's a pretty thing, and there's a pretty thing!

  • A child's a pretty thing, and I should joy To see one of mine own.

  • A pretty thing to invite a gentleman out to an impromptu supper, and serve him in this way!

  • A pretty thing it would be if any big-wigged Lord Chancellor could take away the money that a man works hard for!

  • A pretty thing it would have been,' he said to me, 'had there been no organist this afternoon; it might have cost me my post.

  • She was no longer a pretty thing to be kissed, no longer even a handsome murderess; she was become a heroine, a martyr, a thing enskied and sainted.

  • A pretty thing for a woman to be called by her husband!

  • A pretty thing that, to go down to your children.

  • A pretty thing for a wife to wake at six in the morning, and instead of her husband to see his dirty boots!

  • It is popular partly because it remains a pretty thing even to those who convert it into something quite undistinctive of Wordsworth.

  • A pretty thing it'll be for Deerham, if there's more lives to be put in danger, now the ghost have took to walk again!

  • A pretty thing if tramps be to come to decent folks' doors and knock 'em up like this.

  • A pretty thing if you arrive at the station after the train is in!

  • Bewick has a secondary notion of making his vignette a pretty thing upon a page.

  • You all know what a pretty thing a damask tablecloth is, and how a pattern is brought out by threads running one way in one space, and across in another.

  • The first requirement in the Florentine work, is that it shall be a lovely arrangement of lines; a pretty thing upon a page.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretty thing" 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:
    board were; faith looks; maintain them; other considerations; pretty betimes; pretty birds; pretty close; pretty considerable; pretty fair; pretty fellow; pretty girl; pretty hard; pretty high; pretty large; pretty lass; pretty maid; pretty maiden; pretty much; pretty much the same; pretty nearly; pretty place; pretty rose; pretty sight; pretty thick; trust thee; when feeding