svelte

Ads from American Express, which unveiled its Platinum card in 1984, featured Carol Channing in long gloves holding a diamond and “Don’t leave home without it” printed in a svelte serif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Having dropped 20 pounds from his 6-foot-2 frame as the result of a “clean” diet, leaving him a relatively svelte 315 pounds, Smith said he felt a significant difference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

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

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

The result has a lot in common with the now-discontinued Oculus Go, but with a svelter look and upgrades like the inside-out camera tracking.

From The Verge ● Oct. 14, 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