sitting pretty

Example Sentences

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The victory over the three-time Champions League winners, who are sitting pretty atop Serie A, continued Bodo's surprise tour de force in the competition.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

If you have an income of $200,000 and, for the sake of simplicity, let’s say you have $1 million in your tech-heavy mutual fund, and your home is paid off, you are sitting pretty.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025

R1, a chatbot from the startup DeepSeek, is sitting pretty at the top of the Apple and Google app stores, as of this writing.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2025

Mikel Arteta's side were sitting pretty as they exposed Spurs’ horrible frailty at corners, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s own goal and Kai Havertz’s header bookending Bukayo Saka’s smooth finish on the counter for their second.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2024

"And who's finished up the better off? Me, of course. I'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC."

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl