How to Use prettiness in a Sentence

prettiness

noun
  • 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
  • Finish the look off with a pearl cat-ear headband to play up the prettiness.
    — Michella Oré, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2020
  • There's a prettiness to the whole house, but not at the expense of comfort.
    — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 10 Oct. 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • But vases of flowers on tables have been cursed by their own prettiness.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • But the prettiness of the images isn’t what is most important here.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Curving forms can create a softness and prettiness by their very nature.
    — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The nostalgic prettiness might strike some as a Band-Aid on a bullet hole.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • In Oz, prettiness and virtue are conflated, and Glinda is the fairest of them all.
    — Pam Grossman, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The impossible prettiness of it all draws travelers from across the globe.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One is wild and unkempt; the other is manicured to an almost uncanny prettiness.
    — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The prettiness of it doesn’t bother Arteta unduly.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But, for K-pop idols, prettiness goes beyond aesthetics, and is also about the embodiment of ideals of wholesomeness and purity.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
  • 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
  • When Kitt as Catwoman interrupts the affair, her skintight, shimmery noir catsuit is a titillating, sharp gasp against all that dull prettiness.
    — Scott Calonico, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Much of the delicate prettiness of spring time at Augusta National Golf Club was cosmetic.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • 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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