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

Mr. Drucker combined shapely phrasing with impeccable fingerwork.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

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

Her hair looked curlier, her figure was shapelier, her teeth shone whiter, and her cheeks were a lusty, overbearing red.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

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

It happened, however, to be a beautiful cero mackerel, one of the shapeliest and most attractive fish in these waters.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane

At this time there were many growing up to be men in Midfirth; Skald-Torfa dwelt at Torfa's-stead in those days; her son was called Bessi, he was the shapeliest of men and a good skald.

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by Morris, William