How to Use prettiness in a Sentence

prettiness

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  • 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
  • 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
  • While the beauty of the off-the-grid wild at their disposal would be impossible to miss or downplay for any camera, the duo’s lens unearths more than sheer prettiness, seizing something wistful, even restorative in its grandeur.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021

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