elegant

Example Sentences

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The maze of shadowy streets around the New York Stock Exchange has been rarely associated with elegant, arty escapes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

On paper, Roth conversions sound elegant: Move money from a pretax account to a Roth, pay tax now, reduce future tax risk.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

“Euphemistic speech is the highest form of thinking, human intelligence, an elegant, ‘veiled,’ neutralized, softened figurative expression of reality,” Xilola Inomovna Ismailova, an English teacher at Kokand State University, wrote last year.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Craning her neck into elegant lines, she sculpts herself into the rendering she wants.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

My sisters gave us an elegant lunch—meaning our meat came from a tin instead of the slaughter shed—on a clean tablecloth in the apartment they shared three stories above the street.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron