How to Use pretty well in a Sentence

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  • Still, the pair seems to hit it off pretty well...at least as friends.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Just the whole season, the team has played pretty well.
    Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • There’s one or two that, even in a pop show, these two songs seem to work pretty well.
    Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But again, my own view is that the format served us pretty well.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The Vikings have lost three of four, even though their defense has played pretty well.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In the grand scheme of Duchenne, Connor is fairing pretty well.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Went through kind of his normal prep stuff that went pretty well.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • Jalen Hurts has a lot of his arsenal still and the defense is pretty well stocked too.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Their idea is not to do a lot of things pretty well; their idea is to do one or two things perfectly.
    Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2024
  • The show has already been on linear TV in Spain and was doing pretty well.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Well, the Space Force has been genuinely pretty well blessed.
    Abc News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The last three general managers who left the Red Sox have done pretty well.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • That said, Nevada has still been scoring pretty well in that time with 67 or more points in all three.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Got my first practice in the day before the game and started playing and played a few games, played pretty well.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike most of the artists featured in this series, the Rolling Stones are pretty well known, to put it mildly.
    Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The costars have likely gotten to know each other’s foreheads pretty well over the past three-and-a-half decades.
    John Russell, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
  • For a college dropout, Clark has done pretty well for herself.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 17 June 2024
  • This pretty well describes the black bear that strolled into the garage of an Avon bakery on May 27 in search of cupcakes.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 30 May 2023
  • This pretty well describes the black bear that strolled into the garage of an Avon bakery on May 27 in search of cupcakes.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 30 May 2023
  • But the fact is that the old people can do it pretty well, actually.
    Magnus Henriksson, SPIN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Despite my struggles, parts of the Cocoa Press feel pretty well thought out.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 17 Feb. 2024
  • And this was spring of 2006 and the events that caused the global financial crisis were pretty well under way.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Julia Roberts seems to have life pretty well figured out, huh?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Cliffhangers worked pretty well when shows followed a standard TV schedule, and new seasons launched in the fall and wrapped in the spring.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Cliffhangers worked pretty well when shows followed a standard TV schedule, and new seasons launched in the fall and wrapped in the spring.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Things worked out pretty well for that Crimson Tide squad, but this year’s group has a lot more questions coming in.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Notably, this cover held up pretty well on the abrasion test.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But as a cast album released around that time indicates, the music was pretty well locked in by the time it was put on a stage.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Compared with human overlords, the dogs would treat us pretty well.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • My parents prepared me pretty well for what comes with a cellphone.
    Elizabeth Chang and Kelly Glass, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023

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