How To Use Svelte In A Sentence
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I'll bet, she had thought, watching him and his girl, liking her — big, dark eyes, svelte, a happy soul called Wei-wei who stayed with him like his shadow.
Noble House
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The Aby is also a cat that strikes a medium between the cobby type and the svelte, elongated breeds.
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Her svelte figure and air of haughty independence, which so obviously masked some tragic loneliness, suggested she'd never been a mother.
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Despite her perfect bone structure and newly svelte frame, she is not the most photogenic celebrity in the business, often appearing hard and overly made-up in videos and photoshoots.
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An onlooker said: 'He still looked svelte.
The Sun
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It's hard to reconcile the svelte woman sitting in a suite in the Dorchester Hotel with a victim.
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I'm looking svelte without having to sweat!
The Sun
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Now I know it was the Food Poison Diet that gave you that svelte-kelt look!
The Nervous Breakdown
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A svelte woman thought differently.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nashville, where she lives with husband Keith Urban looking remarkably svelte, which is all the more amazing as she gave birth just ten days ago.
WN.com - Articles related to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban get the festive feeling as they shop for Christmas decorations
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He sees that she's looking rather less svelte than normal.
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She was slim, svelte, and sophisticated.
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She has undoubtedly worked hard to regain her svelte figure so quickly, but if one more newspaper asks ‘how did she do it?’
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I can now eat what I like and still have a svelte figure.
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Their mocking, svelte sexiness made even this pallid romp almost bearably romplike.
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Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
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On the road, svelte limousines crawled between horse-drawn carts.
Somewhere East of Life
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They have to beat around the bush and chase their friends to the swamps by throwing things like "svelte" at them.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
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The very idea of overweight men being able to stuff all their excess flab into their underwear and pass themselves off as svelte is, quite frankly, unacceptable.
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The machine weighs a ton and has all the svelteness of an anchor.
Low End Mac
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Trees that had been svelte thirty years before were now in spreading maturity and blocked the view with their canopies.
SACRAMENT
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As the singer came out again, she broke into song, the band behind accompanying her svelte, smooth voice.
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The ampleness and attitude of Albert was always going to be the big story this offseason, whether he was svelte or slovenly, fit or completely out of shape and huge -- real big, like, Gulf oil-spill big.
As minicamp approaches, Albert Haynesworth isn't the real story
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Bulging biceps, svelte calves and women-attracting pectorals may be just a few injections away.
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It falls somewhere between the svelteness of slices like those from the original Patsy's in Harlem on one hand and the far thicker (and far too thick in my view) of most all the other pizzerias named Ray's.
Serious Eats: New York
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After a season spent clamoring at the door for admission like the rest of the rabble, Kennedy, a svelte, self-assured African-American sophomore with straight, shoulder-length hair and a fondness for cable-knit sweaters, had recently emerged from Ivy's Darwinian "bicker" process — a prim rendition of rush — as one of the chosen few: a member of the club.
Black in the Age of Obama
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Since 2002's Highwire, The Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra have downsized from 16 members to a svelte nonet.
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The attitude certainly showed the svelte perfection of her form to advantage; and from the unavoidable circumstances of the position, it also showed one of the most beautifully formed feet that ever was seen, together with the whole of the exquisite little bottine that clothed it, a beautifully turned ankle, and perhaps as much as two inches of the silk stocking above the boot.
A Siren
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The troubled star had planned to spend 15,000 on plastic surgery to get her size 14 body back to a svelte size eight.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, making me feel nice and svelte is Kenneth Brumley, half a ton and taking in 30,000 calories a day.
Animals
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And some of the ways they get to flex that saving-grace rapier wit are ultimately deeply unlikable because they’re often just plain bitchy about it, and mean humour wears so frightfully thin, thin as our svelte raven-haired cerulean-eyed heroine.
Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room
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The Swedish blonde for whom the word 'svelte' seems especially fitting, she crafted iconic portraits with Horst P. Horst,
GoodShit
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The real bonus to coming home were the comments about my svelte look.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's amazing how I still manage to keep my svelte figure.
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I've been swimming -- the past three days out of four, and I'll go again tonight -- but unfortunately it has not resulted in immediate svelteness.
Readersguide Diary Entry
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Prior to 1985, all light bolt-action hunting rifles began as heavy factory guns that were chopped, gouged, and hacked into svelteness.
The 50 Best Guns of All Time
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Its svelte, timbered chalets (each with a private balcony) are tucked into the leafy groves of Puka Park's 10 hectares of native bush.
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A svelte-looking black velvet off-the-shoulder number, with ostrich feather trim, was priced at ￡59.99.
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Tilting its hat at the big-car market was this new model, long and svelte and promising much luxury and high tech, including crash avoidance systems.
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Abstaining from a single cookie isn't going to make you look svelte and toned.
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I'm overfed, but all I have to do is look at generations of my family to know I'll never be svelte.
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They were either visible or ruined the svelte look she was after.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone else, or nearly anyone, should have shuddered inwardly, had they the awareness necessary to perceive the dark portent forecast by the neatly typed black ink letters, those svelte and innocent creatures, who stood modestly without calling attention to themselves, against the background of an unnoisy grayish sheet of fine paper.
The Pulse-Soldier
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The svelte denim-look duds are actually waterproof and breathable poly-nylon wonders.
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She is never going to be svelte, and that's okay, but dropping a few wouldn't hurt - the curves will remain.
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On top of this, she works out three times a week to maintain her svelte size 6 figure.
The Sun
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So the netbook proved the market for, not necessarily thin-client, but a sort of "svelte" client-a slimmed down ...
Ars Technica
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Boldly defying his own "svelte" President, Crawford called upon his nation to enter the fat race, concluding with a rousing echo of Churchill:
The War on Fat
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Eric Eisenbud: Svelte, swarthy, epicurian and 50 megaton-magnitude fresser.
February « 2010 « Off The Broiler
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But you get the feeling she wouldn't do anything if she didn't want to, would never rely on her blond hair, brown eyes and svelte figure to project her image.
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But the programs promising "natural" svelteness go further.
What Would Phoebe Do
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More Japan Real Time: 'Texas 2 Burger' Yasutsuru Mori, a svelte 74 year-old patron, wolfed down a Texas 2 Burger this weekend.
Beefing Up McDonald's
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Our server was Chenoa, who I’ve already described as a svelte-er, softer, smarter version of Kelly Osbourne.
For the Locals - Osteria Latini, Take 3
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They were both from Pakistan: he was tall, dark and handsome, and she was equally tall, svelte, and beautiful.
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Her elegance belies the bitterness and revenge at her heart - a rather stylish and svelte old dear, for whom the funeral pyre seems a slightly unfair fate.
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Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
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My brother, his tall, thin wife and her equally svelte sister were also visiting.
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She's standing up and wearing a weird white jacket buttoned conspicuously at the waist as if to argue with those who said she'd been photoshopped into semi-svelteness.
Archive 2006-09-01
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This svelteness is achieved via a mix of aluminum, lightweight steel and carbon fiber.
Autoblog Green
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Louis, as you can see, is a gorgeous, svelte figure of a man himself.
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Born in Hyderabad and brought up in Chicago, this svelte lady is all set to explode on the silver screen.
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He's really impressed and has been massively complimentary about my new-found svelte figure.
The Sun
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The obsession with svelte figures flies in the face of past beliefs that regarded those who were thin as being unhealthy and malnourished.
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So while low-carb beers are helping to shape the svelte images of protein-munching youth, there is another type of beer that is appealing to a Millennial subset, especially in the hip bars of urban city centers.
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But the picture turned her life around and she slimmed to 11st and a svelte size ten.
The Sun
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There is no doubt in my mind that the word burly isn't interchangeable with the terms cut or svelte.
Tom Gerdy: All the Mr. Potters Getting You Down? Focus on the George Baileys Around You
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You might call her "gangling" -- stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area.
Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS)
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Shed never been what you might call svelte, but then she had left town and gone to live in Baltimore, and by the time she came back shed piled on the pounds.
The Lovers
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I want to look svelte.
The Sun
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My mother was a stripper, renown for her firm yet svelte bosom.
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Now six months after our baby is born, she's svelte and beautiful.
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And as we all know (or at least so the magazines keep telling us), a man will only love us (subtext: will want to give us a good tumble on his high heat cycle * wink wink nod nod*) if we are svelte.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Women Exercise to Get Male Attention
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If you were to copy Geraldine's eating habits you too would have a svelte figure.
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She admired her own svelte figure in the mirror and repeated to herself her resolution - stay away from sweets.
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The fact that it is also the sveltest laptop yet made-it out-thins both the MacBook Air and HP's Envy, measuring just 1.7 centimetres at its portliest point-is almost a secondary selling point next to its sophisticated and alluring design.
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Now my wife did not need to lose weight, rather she chose to, wanting to adorn our photos looking more svelte than usual.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bodies are chambered to retain tonal characteristics provided by the select tonewood top without suffering as much collateral tonal loss from the svelteness of the body.
Gearwire -
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He begins at the piano, back to the audience, crooning through some svelte middle-of-the-road coffee table number as only Bryan can.
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Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
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With no money and hand-me-down charity, they still manage to look 100 times more chic and svelte than the rest of us.
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Although people said the image was retouched, swimming and Pilates help to retain its svelteness.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the silent man behind the svelte lady as she went about her work promoting Limca.
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However, the real key to maintaining your svelteness as you get older is lifting weights.
Times, Sunday Times
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How delighted these men are with their svelte new look.
Times, Sunday Times
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A graceful, medium-size cat - neither cobby nor svelte - the Egyptian mau has randomly distributed spots of varying sizes and shapes on its torso.
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Across the room a willowy woman in a svelte black dress aimed carelessly at a pool ball and knocked five solids home with one shot as Carson watched, amazed.
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And despite herself, Alma, who was not without a young girl's feelings for nice detail, could thrill to this sartorial svelteness and to the patent-leather lay of his black hair which caught the light like a polished floor.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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She was no dog, certainly, and in fact her high cheekbones and widely spaced greenish eyes and rather full lips and her svelteness and her prodigious heightshe was easily five-ten, almost as tall as Tristanqualified her as hot, a term that Tristan detested but also knew applied in this case, at least where other guys would be concerned.
Excerpt: The Dart League King by Keith Morris
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A svelte reggae beat surfaces elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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His svelte figure glides with hers over the dancefloor.
Times, Sunday Times