shapely

Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

“It’s a Urania Klein,” my friend said, as he lifted the shapely antique typewriter from his car trunk.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

He says he took the above photo when "like so many others that day and on countless days before us, we rested awhile at Sycamore Gap admiring the tree's shapely tenacity and vigour".

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

In Joe Mantello’s breathtakingly chic and shapely production, with a cast of can-you-top-this Broadway treasures, it is never less than a pleasure to watch as it confidently polishes and embraces its illogic.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

She held out her shapely but work-scarred hands.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Raimi was capable of shapelier storytelling than this.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The documentary could have been shapelier and better focused, but it packs lots of information and even more emotion.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023

A leaner show with a shapelier through line might have been made by centering the series on any one of the journalists who hustle across the screen.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018

Haply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding billy-cock.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Standing erect, he might easily have been mistaken for a slightly built and shapelier variety of the gorilla but for the true man-hands and the steady, contemplative, foreseeing look in the eyes.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

It is hard not to fall in love with a beautiful, brilliant creature who changes genders while galloping across three centuries on a pair of “the shapeliest legs” in the land.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2019

U.S. women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Hatfield Peverel, England, the Rev. Brian Mahood judged a women's ankle-beauty contest, then took off his socks and won the prize for the shapeliest male ankles.

From Time Magazine Archive

They looked so dashing and so grand; they were the tallest, shapeliest fellows.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Her hair was black, save when the sun shone on it and revealed strands of golden brown; it was simply arrayed, and knotted on the whitest and shapeliest neck in Christendom. 

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew