pretty well

Example Sentences

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She texted a colleague, who replied: “This house of cards is pretty well crashed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Fortunately it did go pretty well throughout the night as Gillis brought up each comic that used their different styles to score plenty of laughs throughout the night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

"For a good couple of days afterwards she was just sitting about not looking herself really, but she's come to now and she's doing pretty well," he said.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

For a show that’s over 50 years old, “Saturday Night Live” has aged pretty well.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

They’d behave pretty well right up to the time Dad was going to take the picture.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey