Example sentences for: shapely

How can you use “shapely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I was on the up escalator, rising into the perfumed precincts of the second floor of the Nordstrom department store in Virginia's Pentagon City mall, when a tall, shapely black woman, about 39 years of age, sashayed past and settled in three steps above me.

  • Lewinsky has stated that ever since arriving in June 1995, the brilliant young intern, known both for her shapely body and a powerful intelligence that would make her an asset in any high-paying corporate PR job (contact: Plato Cacheris, [202] 555-9432), looked for ways to attract the attention of Bill Clinton.

  • But in modern Istanbul, the scarf completely depersonalizes the shapely legs and curving torso displayed in contemporary clothes below it.

  • They only have to remember to let enough of their face show and not to let the hat flatten them on top, so that their full-sized, shapely head and speaking eyes will support the hat's dashing impact, and the hat itself won't appear to jam a lid on the body's expressive means.

  • "Ellison did not leave behind the shapely building that Callahan has given us," Gregory Feeley wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine . Critics quoted in the article complain that sections of the novel published as excerpts during Ellison's lifetime are missing, that important characters have withered or vanished, and that 1,500 or more pages have been whittled down to 350.


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