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

Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The sergeant again discovered Mathias' footprints, together with others which were shapelier and lighter.

From The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc

The very rude chipped axes of the naked drift age give way after thousands and thousands of years to the shapelier chipped lances, javelins, and arrowheads of the skin-clad cavemen.

From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

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

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 Andrew Lang

These jagged cliffs that flout the air, Harsh granite rocks, so rudely bare, Wise Vulcan's art and mine shall own To piles of shapeliest beauty grown.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson