soignée

Example Sentences

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Three days later, Jack in tow, she would have sashayed into a soignée New York dinner party wearing that 56-carat blue diamond necklace.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

With winged eyeliner out to there, Sandie’s got all the swaggering confidence that Ellie doesn’t, and stepping into her perfectly soignée shoes for an evening is powerfully intoxicating, until Sandie’s ultra-cool existence becomes a nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

In an earlier era, dancers were expected to visit gambling tables between shows, in soignée attire, and mingle with customers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2018

She was a soignée matron, game for some electric color or the flash of a gam, but nothing inappropriate to her age or status.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2015

She looked as freshly soignée as she might have looked at eight that evening instead of at one.

From Jason by Forman, Justus Miles