Examples of prettify in a Sentence
The city is trying to prettify its downtown.
The movie prettified what was in reality a very bloody battle.
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Using euphemisms or otherwise prettifying language can lead to children interpreting things too literally.
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Sarah Klein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Not averse to the panoramic spectacle inherent in desert crossings or infinite expanses of ocean, though never overly prettifying Seydou’s ordeals either, Paolo Carnera’s muscular, color-rich lensing is in line with Garrone’s straightforwardly soulful storytelling.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
And Isobel Waller-Bridge’s score is beautifully in line with the idea of a surface that prettifies the truth.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
Humanizing doesn’t mean prettifying.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Through the pandemic, the government has also used infantilized language to prettify a harsh reality.
—Jane Li, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2022
Leight doesn’t prettify the ugly side of our history.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
Thanks to Photoshop, researchers could prettify the images in their manuscripts in ways that might cross the line into deception in an effort to clear the bar of peer review.
—Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
Ruin is ennobled without being prettified, aestheticized, pushed into the mental distance.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
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Sarah Klein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Not averse to the panoramic spectacle inherent in desert crossings or infinite expanses of ocean, though never overly prettifying Seydou’s ordeals either, Paolo Carnera’s muscular, color-rich lensing is in line with Garrone’s straightforwardly soulful storytelling.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
And Isobel Waller-Bridge’s score is beautifully in line with the idea of a surface that prettifies the truth.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
Humanizing doesn’t mean prettifying.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
Through the pandemic, the government has also used infantilized language to prettify a harsh reality.
—Jane Li, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2022
Leight doesn’t prettify the ugly side of our history.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
Thanks to Photoshop, researchers could prettify the images in their manuscripts in ways that might cross the line into deception in an effort to clear the bar of peer review.
—Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
Ruin is ennobled without being prettified, aestheticized, pushed into the mental distance.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
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“Prettify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prettify. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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