Example Sentences
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When the jacarandas bloomed, that initial burst of color — tiny, bright flowers seemingly as numerous as the stars — prettied the neighborhood like nothing I had ever seen.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022
The chef thinks outside the forum with a skewer of grilled portobello mushrooms on smoked graviera cream — a meat-free souvlaki prettied up with grated cured egg yolk and newly rethought with farro and hazelnuts.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022
Lackluster compounds are evaluated in ways guaranteed to make them look good, Goldacre writes, then prettied up even further with distorted claims of efficacy.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018
They are prettied up, to be sure – they are not the oligarchy as it is, but as it would like to see itself.
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018
I long for my days at the gallery, prettied up, hair done, talking to adults about art or films or nothing at all.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
