shapely

Example Sentences

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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

The filmmakers show less finesse with the real-life scenario, which resists being molded into a shapely narrative.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer