Example Sentences

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Squadrons of hair-metal pretties followed the new-wave glamourpusses, and even paragon-of-rock-virtue Bruce Springsteen had to wiggle his bum for pop culture’s new star-making machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2021

I mean, it’s at that point you want to say, “Hello, my pretties, soon you too will be wearing the burgundy lipstick.”

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018

For $18.50, these twinned pretties seem just right.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2016

Last week, Kane’s hometown newspaper, the Times-Tribune of Scranton, ran a Halloween-theme cartoon of her as a witch saying: “I’ll get you my pretties … and your filthy emails too.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2015

Below her, pretties were starting to spill out of Garbo Mansion onto the lawn and down the hill.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld