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Example sentences for "pretty well"

  • I practiced around all day to get the hang of the things, and by and by I could do pretty well in them, only Jim said I didn't walk like a girl; and he said I must quit pulling up my gown to get at my britches-pocket.

  • And all the time he was a-doing it he tried to talk like an Englishman; and he done it pretty well, too, for a slouch.

  • I never can tell what they call clever from what they call silly, but I always know whether I like a story or not.

  • He must have dodged for that," said Diamond, who had been watching the vessels, and had seen that they went other ways than the wind blew.

  • But he was not older, and did not fancy himself wiser, and therefore understood her well enough.

  • I hope your husband is pretty well, Mrs Crawley?

  • I'm pretty well, thank you; and how are you?

  • She's pretty well,' replied Master Bardell, 'so am I.

  • Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church, where a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon.

  • I understand my father is pretty well again, blessed be God!

  • The land on the North-West side is pretty well cover'd with wood, the Soil more fertile, and would no doubt produce the Necessarys of Life, was it Cultivated.

  • Its situation in this respect is allowed to be pretty well determined.

  • Pretty well; and they were very kind when you were ill, and the girls are much nicer; I am glad we stayed on, except for Angel's sake.

  • So Clem is pretty well settled, thank you.

  • He says the buggy dash is pretty well scratched up, and that it's a wonder you and that Graves man wa'n't killed.

  • The childhood of Paulina is, however, I think, pretty well imagined, but her.

  • Thank you for inquiring after our old servant; she is pretty well; the little shawl, etc.

  • I should be pretty well, if it were not for headaches and indigestion.

  • If the boy puts up a good talk to him the old man will say: 'He came at me pretty well.

  • These things suit me pretty well, and in the morning I can submit it to the old man for his O.

  • While Hannah and I did your work, you got on pretty well, though I don't think you were very happy or amiable.

  • Beth got on pretty well, for she was constantly forgetting that it was to be all play and no work, and fell back into her old ways now and then.

  • I am so splitting with joy you cannot think, because now I have given you some proof that I have been lately sapping and doing pretty well.

  • The Melanesians are very good and pretty well in health, but we are all anxious to be in warm climates.

  • Time enough if I live out my Oxford year, and have really mastered the matter pretty well.

  • It takes a pretty well-regulated, abstemious critic to live ninety years.

  • Blamed if I liked it pretty well, either, coming from a stranger, that way.

  • This one is known; this one is pretty well known, pretty widely known, and in some quarters favorably.

  • Pretty well, I've been here now for some time.

  • It pretty well killed me when I read it over to myself, so I don't know what it will be when I spit it out at them.

  • I can tell you what; with a shilling pit, a sixpenny gallery, and the centre and side circles pretty well full, it soon runs up.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretty well" 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:
    certain things; considerable property; natural light; pretty child; pretty considerable; pretty face; pretty fair; pretty hard; pretty little; pretty long; pretty maid; pretty maiden; pretty much; pretty much the same; pretty near; pretty nigh; pretty picture; pretty rose; pretty sure; pretty thing; pretty well; pretty while; quarter pounds; rectified spirit; she wants; trouble about