svelte

It’s easy to adore the star in the mid-to-late 1950s when he’s young and svelte, scandalizing and delighting America with his wiggly hips, popularizing a new sound dubbed rock ‘n’ roll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Why do some dog breeds struggle to stay svelte?

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

The skeleton has the svelte look of a juvenile T. rex, or, for true believers, represents the elusive “Nanotyrannus.”

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2024

Experts have unearthed numerous fossils of the svelte tyrannosaur, including some relatively complete skeletons, with the adults reaching more than 26 feet in length and weighing more than two tons in life.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023

Outside, the skyline has changed: the Park Plaza is no longer the tallest building around, but a squat leftover, dwarfed by the svelte glassy towers that rise around it.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Matsuda ran with the concept, and over the next two years, he led a team in developing a svelter design.

From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2021

But the experience for the slightly svelter rodents involved a lot of shivering until their bodies adjusted by building up body-warming, calorie-burning brown fat.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019

Its success led to a 1900 remake, featuring svelter characters.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019

Ugo Ihemelu -- The Nigerian-born Ihemelu is the svelter of the two Dallas center backs, so I'm figuring he gets paired up with Seattle's DP forward most often.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2011

I watched with the profoundest satisfaction as five days of grime ran down my legs and out the drainhole, and noticed with astonished gratitude that my body had taken on a noticeably svelter profile.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

From an early age she aspired to be a ballet dancer, and, though never the sveltest girl en point, at 16 she landed a job in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2019

But the Lifter is not the sveltest of vessels — just 10 feet narrower than the 110-foot locks themselves — and required the finesse of a Panama Canal Authority pilot to thread the needle.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2014

Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond income, it was the sveltest, splashiest, most scrambled-after social affair that the nation's capital has seen in many years.

From Time Magazine Archive