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

In the place of cabinets, it featured exposed wooden shelves stocked with shapely glass jars of potions and preserves.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 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

She was still shapely and her face was unlined.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

There was one walk with the wireless operator to a smaller tramp in a distant dock, aboard which somewhat shapelier ship than the Bonadventure he had an acquaintance.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

Couldn't the man pick out something natty, a shapelier toe, buttons, a neat upper of tan or blue cloth—patent leather, of course?

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

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

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

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

They looked so dashing and so grand; they were the tallest, shapeliest fellows.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

And not only the smallest, but also the shapeliest.

From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton