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svelte

adjective as in thin and well-built

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Example Sentences

And saints are a pretty svelte bunch, what with all the fasting and suffering.

Growing up, Trainor was very self-conscious about her curves, often wishing she could be svelte like her high school friends.

Fair-skinned, tall and svelte with intense black eyes, she sought me out, again to practice her English.

Instead, her au naturel dusting and vacuuming maintained her svelte figure.

When the electro-induced trance subsides, a svelte, attractive brunette is revealed.

The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.

Bella was slender and svelte, with long straight soft beautiful silken pale red hair and white-lidded eyes of grayish green.

Her gay svelte figure marched bravely along, virginal defiance in her shoulders and the swing of her tailor-made skirt.

Tall, svelte, and as far as Jacques Dantin could see, she was young.

But she's right there with the svelte figure,176 the school girly flush, and the sparklin' eyes.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to svelte, such as: graceful, lithe, slender, lean, lissom, and slinky.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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