shapely

Example Sentences

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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

In the afternoon, as camaraderie developed over botches and breakthroughs, we alternated between rolling and raising our wheat dough and, every 30 minutes, stretching and folding the sourdough, which gradually went from sticky to shapely.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2023

He reached down two shapely arms and gave a long-fingered hand to each of the hobbits.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien