How to Use prettiness in a Sentence

prettiness

noun

• There's a prettiness to the whole house, but not at the expense of comfort.
  — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 10 Oct. 2013
• Click through to see the best of what’s on sale — there’s still plenty of prettiness to go around.
  — Emily Ruane, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• The child smiled at the new self in the mirror, this bright face with its velvety scalp, the last prettiness gone.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
• What’s the meaning of the extreme prettiness of your work?
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2022
• Finish the look off with a pearl cat-ear headband to play up the prettiness.
  — Michella Oré, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2020
• Of course, prints and prettiness aren’t the only way to tackle spring style.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 17 May 2021
• For all the softness and prettiness of clothes this summer, shoes have a hard, even scary edge.
  — Suzy Menkes, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Mar. 2008
• In Oz, prettiness and virtue are conflated, and Glinda is the fairest of them all.
  — Pam Grossman, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
• But the prettiness of the images isn’t what is most important here.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Oct. 2022
• A Top Mob graffiti painting provides an edgy contrast to the prettiness of the rest of the room.
  — Christy Lorio, NOLA.com, 7 June 2017
• The irony is that the QX55’s normcore prettiness leaves almost no one behind: a big sassy grille, 20-inch wheels, a slick roof, a cute butt.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• So many people seem to be aiming at an ideal of prettiness that has no edges to it.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 25 June 2018
• The nostalgic prettiness might strike some as a Band-Aid on a bullet hole.
  — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
• The score, too, shimmers with prettiness, lolling in lavender-and-plum harmonies, savoring the two-note lilt of a harp.
  — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
• Come showtime one never has to hunt too far to feel the shadow of something dark among the prettiness at Simone Rocha.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2021
• The cheerful pattern of the dress, too, lent the dress a sense of nonchalant prettiness that felt right for day, and a refreshing change of pace from the usual LBD.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2017
• The terrors of the car journey are amply rewarded in the village itself, which is beyond the dream of prettiness and charm.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• But vases of flowers on tables have been cursed by their own prettiness.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
• One of the rewards of a Weyes Blood album is the sense that, beneath the transistor-radio prettiness, something stranger lurks.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Romy's fellow inmates urge her to recognize her prettiness as a tool as well, and instruct her on how to wield it with Gordon.
  — Idra Novey, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Was my friend looking just too privileged in her prettiness?
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
• Worn for daily life, their preciousness, if not their prettiness, fell away, and the dresses felt like a subversive uniform.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2022
• The color combinations and the mix of prettiness, done in a modern way, and then this hard-edged, masculine elegance.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 Feb. 2021
• Perhaps his brand of ambivalent prettiness suits our era.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• The glaze retains an appealing softness even after it’s set, so serve the cookies on a platter—in a single layer—to preserve their prettiness.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• This wasn’t a performance about nonessentials, certainly not about prettiness when deeper meaning was there to be probed.
  — Anne Midgette, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• Lizzo, who performed at the awards show, wore a glamorous pale pink custom ACT N°1 gown with a high slit and massive feathery clam shell detail that swooped over her shoulders and framed her head and neck in fluffy pink prettiness.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 13 Feb. 2023
• One is wild and unkempt; the other is manicured to an almost uncanny prettiness.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
• Who better to wear ruffles, roses, puffed sleeves, and unabashed prettiness than a star whose witty take on courtship has yielded a lifetime’s worth of binge-worthy television?
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2021
• People who loved Bowie’s look may just find its polished, conventional prettiness misses what gave that look its power.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 12 July 2019

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024