svelte
Example Sentences
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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
Vocabulary lists containing svelte
15 Synonyms for "Thin": An Eileen Ford (1922-2014) Tribute List
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