Example sentences for: suave

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

  • His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.

  • Of course, most of the people whom CIA officials must strive to understand--or recruit--are not suave Europeans but rather Middle Eastern thugs, Russian weapons traffickers, Chinese bureaucrats, Latin American officers, and the like.

  • In place of Sport, Harvey Keitel's suave, vicious pimp in the earlier film, Bringing Out the Dead features Cy, a suave, vicious drug dealer played by Cliff Curtis.

  • A Hungarian (Sandor Szavost) who whirls Alice around on the dance floor while purring suave come-ons is like Dracula out of a Mel Brooks parody, and Kidman's giggly responses (she's supposed to be drunk) recall Melanie Griffith at her most airheaded.

  • Hersh's JFK is not shrewd, he is "fanatical"; he is not coolheaded, he is impulsive; he is not suave, he is sleazy.


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