How To Use Elegant In A Sentence

On his first day there he approached a couple of elegant young toffs strolling around the campus. Times, Sunday Times
Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame. Springhaven
These included the elegant designs for an indoor playhouse which were to become the cause of a great deal of scholarly speculation and disagreement. The Times Literary Supplement
There are some trademark pieces - elegant-legged tables and high-quality marquetry - mixed in with contemporary designer furniture, antique shop finds and some very in-your-face art.
An early season bloomer, about 18-inches tall, its subtle fragrance has been described as elegant, sweet, and tartly fruity.

Rich, warm string tone, sweet, elegant winds, and mellow, sonorous brass are the hallmarks of the ‘Saxony sound’.
Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
Any tartness and capers seemed to have abandoned this dish for a more elegant life, leaving a creamy, flavourless gloop on the plate.
The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
Personally, I don't wear separates, but one can wear them occasionally to freshen their style and wardrobe, with a whole new casual yet elegant look.
Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
Situated only eight miles from Manchester's bustling city centre and with superb views over the Pennines, the elegant Norton Grange Hotel at Rochdale offers fine four-star accommodation within landscaped grounds.
The first is a long, sleeveless silk dress, which has a looser cut that is "beachy, floaty and has movement" but which also has a slight air of "drama" due to its elegant, floor-dusting hemline. Packing Just Enough for a Weekend at the Beach
Served rare, the meat of squab is a heady delicacy, both earthy and elegant.
The basic, elegant design is already complete; modifying it to improve service will be an afterthought. Total Customer Service (The Ultimate Weapon)
As impressively elegant as the iPhone 4's 3.5? retina display is, the X's 4.3? superscreen makes for larger type and easier tapping. PCWorld
He wanted to restore the elegant dovecote, which has 880 nesting boxes in 16 tiers, and turn it into a versatile glass-and-steel living space with a glazed extension, without losing the integrity of the original building.
The elegant cinematography is the work of Jeff Cronenweth (who comes by it naturally; his late father, Jordan, was one of the best shooters of his time). 'Social Network': Password Is Perfection
He was joined by elegant Italian lutenist Andrea Damiani in contrapuntal pieces by Vincenzo Galilei.
Elegantly erotic statues stood once more in alcoves around the room, and the massive murals were nearly finished.
Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming.
This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director. New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
she was elegant to her fingertips
In forming an adjective, -esque strikes me as a more elegant suffix than -ish, as in enronish or the less critical enronlike. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day. The Letters of Robert Burns
He formed his own stylelish in his creation, leaving lots of elegant music to the earthling.
She glides to the podium, perfect in every way, from the toes of her green pearlized kid shoes, to the elegant full length Thai silk ceremonial vest, to the top of her jade tiara. Over herez… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
Even if your alarm code is written elegantly and well, there is a compelling advantage to a centralized service.
Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry.
The city of Bordeaux exudes wealth: its enormous, elegant squares easily rival the Place de Vosges in Paris or Piazza Navona in Rome.
The blind arcading pattern and inscriptions in Armenian that cover the church's external walls are reflected throughout the site on the elegant Church of the Redeemer, built to house a fragment of the True Cross, and the Church of the Holy Apostles. Time-Traveling in Armenia
With elegant, modern decor, it is a luxurious urban oasis in the heart of the city. Times, Sunday Times
The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
It was neat and elegant, like all wild animals, with an air of aristocratic insouciance and good breeding.
Try freshening a living or family room with an elegantly skirted table.
This is a realistic story about two people who meet as strangers and remain that way, told with an elegant, refined grace.
With her willowy, elegant figure, she could make almost anything look stylish. Times, Sunday Times
Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
Everything was sculpted to present an elegant, Japanese refinement, using dark woods and red silks and gold embroidery and edging.
The Chough (pronounced ‘chuff’) is an elegant member of the crow family, a little smaller than a Rook and distinguished by a bright red, slightly decurved bill and red legs and feet.
Try the paisley floral pink, lime and mocha print in an elegant strappy swimsuit or a stripe bikini with ruched side pants.
She was a Siamese, born to be sleekly elegant, and here she was, weighed down by this swollen bellyful of kittens. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
He gestured elegantly at the door, his velvet coat rippling out behind him.
The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider.
I am walking speedily along New York's Fifth Avenue when this elegant stranger accosts me, grabs my arm in a vice-like grip and hisses, ‘Where did you get that pin?’
' He mimicked a vague distraction, waved his fingers elegantly. THE QUEST FOR K
And of course, it is only in the world of Miuccia that it's ok to wear stockings with sandal platforms and still look so elegant.
Finally, I found some hand-blown bubbled-glass feeders from Mexico, with elegant red glass flowers as the spigots for the hummers' beaks.
He apparently made a charming studio companion with his courtly manners and elegant conversation. Times, Sunday Times
The elegant gentleman before us had acquired a certain fierceness. The Filigree Ball
I thought she looked elegant and classy. The Sun
An elegant ding dong, dang dong rang throughout the house, and a small mouse of an old woman answered it curiously.
-- Elegant half-hardy annuals, which can be grown as specimens for the conservatory, or in quantity for open borders. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
Like the pillow the white on white design and three flag insignia is classic, elegant, and free of worry as the pillow features double stitching ensuring a sealed hypoallergenic pillow that no down will escape. A “Spruce Goose” of a Pillow
On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
This autumn, the elegant option is a midiskirt. Times, Sunday Times
While Disney turned out elegant, smooth, richly detailed work, Ub's stuff looked like high-school doodles.
He enjoyed a reputation for building tall elegant masonry structures such as church towers and spires.
The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief.
This is an elegant explanation, one that leads to Mauser's equally elegant peroration: ‘capacitating students to be competent citizens is our birthright.’
The pictures display a simple, white and elegant interior design which is about to get crowdy once the workers will fill the place, no doubt. Fusion Office Suite From Enrico Pellizzoni
The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
The prince, however, was mindful of me, and the next day I received from the Persian embassy the word elegantly written in Persian, with the translation, "_a pelican_. The Gypsies
In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole.
This elegant five-bedroom palazzo is a cross between a hotel and a guesthouse. Times, Sunday Times
Each room is uniquely styled and many feature antique or bespoke furniture, while common areas include landscaped gardens and elegant drawing rooms with open fires. Times, Sunday Times
On another occasion Heine writes that Kalkbrenner is envied for his elegant manners, for his polish and sweetishness, and for his whole marchpane-like appearance, in which, however, ihe calm observer discovers a shabby admixture of involuntary Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
Today, after a careful conversion, it is a very comfortable and elegant country home.
Pierced by curves and angles of thin metal, the precarious, canted structure is poised on elegant little wheels. The Artist in All His Dimensions
He strolled about, looking very debonair in his elegant new suit.
All I see is his broad back encased in an expensive black suit, and the elegant cut of his dark hair.
The stair is elegantly made, a light filigree of steel rod and plates that contrasts with the heavy concrete solidity of the vault.
But she looked the same, elegant and sophisticated, with a short bob of black hair and big baby blue eyes.
The three lowest horizontal bands of the lower portico's elegantly rusticated facade frame ten light and ventilation shafts for the basement, a flat keystone resting above each of the nearly square openings.
That was as much to do with her beautiful suit and elegant up-do as her hair colour. Times, Sunday Times
The elegant veranda of the house looks on to manicured lawns and the summer house. Times, Sunday Times
Poplar leaves have an elegant outline resembling that of an arab minaret.
My cousins were mere cubs, in whose company I might, if I liked it, unlearn whatever decent manners, or elegant accomplishments, I had acquired, but where I could attain no information beyond what regarded worming dogs, rowelling horses, and following foxes. Rob Roy
Carol had shed her puppy fat and was now very elegant.
It still has an elegant and fluid design, understated rather than flash, but sadly it is missing the distinctive boomerang-shaped rear lights.
One day I will shine elegant.
The roof's prism casts the light throughout the chapel, balancing the only other objects inside - a puritan aesthetic of elegantly austere seating, a simple organ and the barest suggestion of an altar.
Doris, her elegant mother, had Sue's same wicked sense of humour.
I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income) Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
I originally posted that I could do with a "snazzy" logo and someone thanks, John pointed me to an online definition of snazzy: "fashionably and often flashily smart or elegant". Phantom Patrol: final cover art
This kind of action needs precise timing and director Mike Alfreds and his 14 strong cast provide the elegantly energetic execution required.
Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
From double mercerized golf shirts in elegant tonal patterns to luxurious Tencel/cotton twills, this collection allows those in sizes up to 6XL and 6XL TALL a chance to get a real selection in this higher-caliber product.
They are spottier birds than their elegant parents. Times, Sunday Times
The design on this quilt cover is quite elegant.
Powell's florid story and Makinen's elegant draftsmanship create a vision of Dracula more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies, and they give both him and Holmes a super-villain and - hero look, which seems appropriate. 3 books about Dracula
The propriety of his magical lady's injunction not to read can only be equalled by his candid acknowledgment of his independence of the trammels of spelling, although, to use his own elegant phrase, "'twas his neckverse at Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
The new works may be her most reserved and elegant since the monochromes (such as charcoal on vellum) that she made in the late '80s.
The elegant veranda of the house looks on to manicured lawns and the summer house. Times, Sunday Times
My walk is an inelegant bob… as if navigating a choppy sea.
Zoe is a quirky lady who says she's more at home wearing bovver boots than elegant stilettos.
She has long dark black hair that makes her look quite elegant.
Six massive shapes wrapped in cling film rise from the floor: rotund, curvaceous, one shaped like a fennel bulb with an elegant slender neck, another like a Russian doll, yet another plumped and segmented like a swollen gourd. A Potter's Monumental Inspiration
Once in the mouth, elegant and effortless waves of nuts, red fruits and peppery spice roll over the palate and stay long after the finish.
After my sophomore year in college, during a grueling search for a summer job that would be commensurate with my skills and elegant manner, I lucked out and was hired by a large hospital as an orderly.
Manufactured from sheet material, Corian or metal, the bathroom fixture is not only light in weight but also retains strength, while being elegant as it comes in the shape of a petal, giving a natural look to the interior of your place. Unusual Wahbasin Shape from Ekateryna Sokolova
The waterfalls were crystal clear, while elegant pavilions stand under trees that drip with bright red flowers.
Enjoy luxury at sea, aboard the elegant mid-sized ships sophisticated travelers prefer.
After decades of effort, Hollywood is finally "plugging the analog hole," as it's inelegantly been called, thanks to new restrictions imposed by the licensing administrator for the AACS, the copy-protection scheme used in Blu-ray players. Goodbye, HD component video: Hollywood hastens the 'analog sunset'
You could hardly call it normality, especially in a country that prefers the inelegant word ‘normalcy’.
The house is elegant but informal - slouchy white sofas in the lounge and a kitchen that runs on an honesty system, stocked with drinks and snacks. Times, Sunday Times
Her eyes, a startling blue-gray danced and twinkled in the light streaming in from tall, elegant windows framed with green marble columns topped by gold-painted fluting.
Towering over East Main Street, the elegant nine-story landmark has been plagued by financial instability since it opened in 1925.
We tailor our double mercerized 100% Egyptian cotton lisles in a classic golf cut, mindful of the necessary balance between freedom of movement and an elegant fit.
Applying Occam's Razor to web design will help you find the most elegant and direct solution to your design problems.
There are elements of autobiography in these acute, erudite, elegant and amusing essays. Times, Sunday Times
Around his neck hung a silver pendant wrought elegantly into the shape of a dragon.
The oration was a very elegant performance, but not without much Art -- a few Strokes which to me injure the performance. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 April 1776
His solution was as elegant as it was radical. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley.
The French courante was more elegant and stately than its Italian counterpart.
The guayabera, an embroidered man's shirt, is a traditional and elegant article of clothing that is still worn today for both formal and informal occasions.
Ready-made pantries are available in almost any size and shape, from narrow cabinets to elegant armoires that have been converted for kitchen storage.
I like my clothes to be simple but elegant.
The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
She's sleek, elegant, stylish and the epitome of New York City chic.
The elegant sloping roofline conjures a sleek, lightweight look as we follow it towards the rear hatch.
He stands in the foreground facing the light, elegantly dressed in a suit and bow tie, his raised arms holding the light meter. Times, Sunday Times
You can eat well at one of the noodle shops or fast-food places for less than $10, or you can wine and dine more expensively and elegantly at a place like the Ship's Tavern.
A high wall in an elegant London park is covered in drawings, photographs cut out of magazines and elaborately crafted votives.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
The increasing number of genetically encoded indicators provides elegant tools for monitoring activity.
The two middle feathers of the tail have no webs, except a very small one at the base and at the extreme tip, forming wire-like cirrhi, which spread out in an elegant double curve, and vary from twenty-four to thirty-four inches long. The Malay Archipelago
Built heritage experts concede that the most severely damaged buildings were not the most elegant, stylish or historic within the bounds of Edinburgh's World Heritage Site.
The strength of this production lies in its unhurried pace; far from boring us, it entertains in an elegant and original way.
An elegant fusion of Asian and Western elements in the design extends to the dishes - noodles, pasta, tempura, grills and rotisserie - on offer throughout the day and evening.
His elegant voice is familiar to many who have visited the Met and have used the museum's audio guides.
The Museum of New York is one of the most elegant spots in the city, and has everything you ever wanted to know about New York City.
Just two steps above the main deck, the upper sitting area is simply and elegantly defined by an open railing, a small torii, and a bamboo fountain.
The best songs here are elegant and catchy without being overdone.
Hotel ads normally stress the beauty of the rooms and public facilities and the elegant, attentive service employees supposedly provide. Total Customer Service (The Ultimate Weapon)
It's the elegant balance of its hips, fine autumnal foliage and deep purple stems that do it for me. Times, Sunday Times
The classic English fairy tale is embellished with elegant visual sweeps of the beanstalk and the castle in the sky.
Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.
We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.
The cast-in-place piers are graceful, slender, and elegant with curving surfaces, spaced 142 feet apart.
When it comes to women in business, there is a common assumption that being super-rich and beautiful, with long blonde hair and an elegant 5'11 frame, usually means you are not taken as seriously as your male or mousier colleagues. Ivanka Trump And The Art Of Being Underestimated
Americans love the idea of fish: it has all sorts of aspirational associations for them; it's sophisticated, healthy and elegant.
Brick allows you to personalize the look of your home with elegant detailing, such as arches and quoins, different bond patterns and special shapes.
My fave was a deeply elegant emerald trouser suit, but there was much love in the room for his show-stopping dresses. Times, Sunday Times
He was entranced by his own thoughts, and dazzled by the elegant simplicity of his conspiracy theories.
The lengths will be available in classic design of chalk stripes, elegant stripes and fine herringbones in navy, charcoal and worsted grey.
These tautly stretched lines consist of single strands of horsehair, arranged in an elegant composition that brings to mind the great horizontal tableaux of Barnett Newman.
The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character.
Let that dry for an elegant metal finish, or apply the patina topcoat or rapid rust oxidizer for a unique variety of aged finishes.
The boxy shape has been replaced with elegant - but still macho - curves. The Sun
It's the elegant balance of its hips, fine autumnal foliage and deep purple stems that do it for me. Times, Sunday Times
They had seemed so masculine and imposing, with their crisp waistcoats, elegant tailcoats, and fancy neck cloths.
He noticed the artful make-up, the elegant hair style.
I have a difficult time finding cute or elegant clothes that flatter my shorter and squarer figure.
We are all for complicated elements but, I'd say, with an elegant style of performance.
We dined in the elegant Pump Room restaurant and drank the warm, odd-tasting, waters of the spring, as the 18th Century socialites had.
I elegantly e-mailed the company, who sent back a ‘dear occupant’ type response assuring it's ‘aware of the varied taste preferences and dietary needs of our consumers,’ but not specifically addressing any point, plaint or plea.
One small, elegant granite-faced structure, formerly the headquarters of a respected brokerage, had been turned into a soda dispensary.
Why should a woman's style go from stylish and elegant to manly and boxy when she is dressed in her clerical attire for ministering? Times, Sunday Times
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Its elegant dubbing techology and production enjoy high reputation both inside and outside the country.
For those anticipating a handsome Christmas bonus, the Mission Mtime integrated home theater system is an elegant starter kit.
On the water's edge just a few metres away an elegant white crane admires its reflection in the water.
It looks classy and elegant and is very'now '. The Sun
The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
In her every day life, this up and coming model wears elegant and comfortable clothes in the colours of blue, yellow or green.
His scrapers are similarly of delicate and elegant construction with bronze castings, some incised.
They were dressed for a trip, Paul in a simple and elegant suit of dark blue and Dix in a sophisticated traveling habit of emerald green with black ribbing.
Their cakes have the charm of iconic line drawings, all elegant right angles and perfect domes and maraschino cherries that might have been placed with a compass.
In elegant experiments directed towards the question of the localization of the release of Ac.Ch. in the ganglion, Feldberg and Vartiainen24 were recently able to prove that it was released neither by the preganglionic fibres nor by the ganglion cells themselves, the only direct effector organ. Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture
Be elegant and with nice personality.
An elegant traymobile was set up with various refreshments.
Character design is elegant, and this extends to the enemies you come across. The Sun
His elegant clothes contrasted with his rough speech.
The work aimed to recreate the smart ironwork and elegant lamps of the station when it first opened.
The elegant brunette was thinner, longer, and more sophisticated.
Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy. A Love Story
It is really a sort of sublimated and apotheosized "argot," an "argot" of a kind of platonic archetypal drawing-room; such a drawing-room as has never existed perhaps, but to which all drawing-rooms or salons, if you will, of elegant conversation, perpetually approximate. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
If you're approaching Italy from the elegantly manicured and often overdeveloped French Riviera, then Liguria comes as a delightful surprise.
Feiyun River middle reaches, riverbank Gate Creek this collection, the environment elegant.
These trends are reflected in new high-end mouldings that offer elegant, subtly aged finishes to complement interiors with a European feel.
The foremost of these was a young female, most elegantly attired, and mounted upon a Spanish jennet, which she reined with singular grace and dexterity. Anne of Geierstein
There's a new nice little flaggy 5.7 - or so that's all just elegant and flowing, which I liked so much I climbed it twice as a warmup, and then after that I sent my project 5.8 on the skywall. I was stirring my brandy with a nail
Their manners and movements are unaffected and elegant; they dress in exquisite taste; and with a grace peculiarly their own, their manners have a fascination and witchery which is perfectly irresistible. The Englishwoman in America
An elegant dejeune was given to the happy couple by his Excellency Lord The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
It is such an elegant tongue, the language of flowers: supple, courtly and precise.
He was renowned for being especially charming to the elegant older ladies and for drawing funny caricatures of his co-workers. Times, Sunday Times
Transitory Objects" includes two elegant models from Alisa Andrasek that are part of a design project called "Mesonic Emission, " a reference to mesons, subatomic particles composed of quarks.
His shop is full of four-barreled, fat-tired road studs and a crew of mechanics and body men who know every grease zerk and bolt hole in the Chevelles, Chargers, 442s and other elegant brutes from the Detroit power play that peaked in the 1960s and early '70s. Detnews.com - Local
But it is still elegant and compleat, and Mama found room to underline or make comments in her copperplate handwriting, using peacock-blue fountain pen ink in delicate lines. Archive 2010-01-01
A simple, extremely elegant dusky pink open flower with slightly ruffled petals. Times, Sunday Times

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