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use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.
She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends
How To Use pretty up In A Sentence
- Peck suggests thinking about rooftops as part of the city's infrastructure, not just something that can pretty up the top of a building: ‘As public tax payers, why not invest in roofscapes just as we do in bridges and roads?’
- Ah, look. All cleaned up. You know, they say Amanda can pretty up a pig.
- I guess there's nothing wrong with that as they don't hide behind teenage cheekiness and are pretty up front.
- You looked pretty upset just now.
- Santa was quite kind to her this year, but it is obvious that he's pretty upset with the direction-challenged king of a small Achaean island because he's inflicted a devious kind of torture on me. Archive 2009-12-01
- She's pretty upset and telling her legal reps that five British publications are getting it all wrong.
- Stephen is going to be pretty upset when he finds out how you tricked him.
- Where can I buy small, pretty uplighters or wall lights?
- You looked pretty upset just now.
- It makes me feel pretty upset actually, the fact that people can't even go outside their dorms and walk around town without something happing to them, it's pretty awful," said freshman Ryan Chodora. Antinette 'Toni' Keller Missing: Police Search For Missing Northern Illinois Student