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Example sentences for: svelte
How can you use “svelte” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The newly svelte lady surely had in mind an about-face, not a pirouette, and was lithely (as she might say) unaware that her expanded metaphor had canceled the sense of her loss (a moroxish pun?)
There's a man's svelte blazer tailored in a red-flowered ivory brocade.
The paper also ran a feature on a "svelte and clearly self-assured" Louise Woodward, who posed this month for the women's magazine Marie Claire against the background of an English courtroom.
If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
An exposé in a newspaper revealed that he was the beau of a svelte coquette he had met aprés-ski and she gave him the coup de grâce by poisoning his créme caramel in a crime passionnel.