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• The old silver lends an air of elegance to an otherwise drab room.From the entry lend
• The decor positively breathes classical elegance.From the entry breathe
• He has elegance and power, and can create and score goals.2023 September 12, Phil McNulty, “Scotland 1-3 England: 'Complete package' Jude Bellingham puts concluding flourish on world-class…. From the entry complete package
• Antonia Beresford, who made up in elegance what she lacked in efficiency.2013, Marilyn Messik, Relatively Strange, page 261. From the entry armchaired
• For a man who condemned worldly pleasures he ate with elegance.1995, Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, 25th Anniversary edition, William Morrow, published…. From the entry arabesque
• The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible.1990: Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 13, issues 5–6, page 368 (sub nomine sui). From the entry unlachrymose
• The printing machine insists on justifying the lines and produces gate-toothed copy of little elegance.1990, Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, pages 381-382. From the entry gate-toothed
• I arranged ‘octavations’ which seemed to me to give the two movements greater elegance and litheness.1988, William Primrose quoted by David J. Dalton in Playing the Viola, page 202. From the entry octavation
• There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young.1984, Nancy Holmes, The Big Girls, page 26. From the entry unshouting
• Cutting a lemon with elegance takes little more effort than hacking it in half.1982, Molly Siple, Irene Sax, “Introduction”, in Foodstyle: The Art of Presenting Food Beautifully, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers…. From the entry foodstyling
• Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry malar
• Instead of flashiness, there is a subdued effect of richness and elegance.1911, Luigi Bogliolo, The Los Angeles Daily Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 2. From the entry overexcess
• The upper ranks thought the middling sort were greedy, obsessed with making money, virtuous enough, but lacking taste, elegance and culture.2015, Keith Linley, ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in Context: The Politics of Passion, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry middling sort
• It's a simple way to communicate elegance." And please don't call it a Peter Pan, the club's fey sister.2012 Apr, “Field Guide: The Club Rules”, in Town and Country. From the entry fey
• Can the rumpled elegance and mismatched opulence of shabby chic find happiness with cutting edge digital tools and techniques?2011, Jeanne Wines-Reed, Joan Wines, Digital Scrapbooking For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry shabby chic
• The uninterrupted fenderline that flows from the front to the rear is what gives the E-Type its timeless elegance.2011 August, Robert Cumberford, “Design Analysis: Jaguar E-Type”, in Automobile Magazine. From the entry fenderline
• Indeed, sometimes elegance and kluginess coexist, side by side.2008, Gary Marcus, “Remnants of History”, in Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company…. From the entry kluginess
• Her one discernible flaw is her hyperextended arms, but while occasionally distracting, they also lend her elegance a youthful, gangly charm.2007 March 25, Gia Kourlas, “Paul Taylor’s Women Take a Leap Forward”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperextended
• The commonest species is the hapu‘u, Cibotium, a majestic and graceful fern with all the elegance of a green fountain.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 36. From the entry hapu'u
• But the Beats, despite their appealing cult of drugs and Whitmanian sincerity, lacked the cool elegance Lou venerated.1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994. From the entry Whitmanian
• Perhaps they are seeking elegance or some special identification.1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107. From the entry Yolanda
• For the rest, the dress follows the usual rules, and the details of shoulder-flap and undercloth are rendered with elegance.1967, Towards a History of Sukhodaya Art, pages 23, 54. From the entry undercloth
• I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.1956, Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue, We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz., Peter Davies, page 40. From the entry albert
• This was their secret for some centuries—until the Assyrians learned about the elegance of fish for tonicking the brain.1939, Frank Grant Menke, Encyclopedia of Sports, page 17. From the entry tonic
• The hotel was drab and decayed exteriorly; but the dining room was a continental elegance of marble, gilt, and mirrors.1922, Edgar Lee Masters, Children of the Market Place. From the entry exteriorly
• Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The…. From the entry hang
• 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'2009, Georgette Heyer, Frederica, page 75. From the entry Dutch reckoning
• She walked over towards me with an odd elegance, big strides, like a champion girl swimmer, say; muscled but lean, with a phocine grace.1987, William Boyd, The New Confessions. From the entry phocine
• How alive these poems are with the visual specifics of what he so closely observes, how full of elegance, terror and hope.1982 April 10, Jane Barnes, “Terror and Hope”, in Gay Community News, page 10. From the entry portend
• This smart surfaces are contained within a beautiful vehicle showing its power, its sportivity and at the same time the elegance that you’d expect from Pininfarina.2021 December 1, “Pininfarina reveals Foxconn’s 750hp Model E with 750km range at Hong Kong MotorXpo”, in Autocar Professional. From the entry sportivity
• This is a book of defamiliarizations, a recital of phenomenological possibility aflood in its own formal elegance, like a glass of water made prismatic and strange.2015, Broc Rossell, quoting Srikanth Reddy, Festival, Cleveland, Oh.: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, →ISBN, back cover. From the entry aflood
• The Nicholas Brothers had a unique talent for being gymnastically athletic in their dancing while they maintained an elegance and sense of humor that was thrilling.2008, Thomas S. Hischak, The Oxford Companion to the American Musical. From the entry gymnastically
• "One of the most beautiful hotels to open in Florida in recent years, the Ritz-Carlton puts on the ritz but in subtle style, illustrating elegance without shouting about it."1989, Marylyn Springer, Arthur Frommer, Frommer's Guide to Florida, 1990 - Page 465. From the entry put on the ritz
• In their ethopoeias of the ideal lover, de la Torre, Ribera, and Luduefia emphasize, as we have seen, eloquence, good physical proportions, youth, elegance, discretion and honesty.1976, E. Michael Gerli, Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry ethopoeia
• As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic.1961 February 26, “Nothing, Something, Everything”, in Time. From the entry unfitted
• He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.1958, Han Suyin [pseudonym; Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou], chapter 11, in The Mountain is Young, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry elongate
• As Abel Magwitch would have said, he was "a heavy grubber"; or as a Yorkshireman, with a similar disregard for elegance, would express it, "a good trougher."1939, Harold Armitage, Early Man in Hallamshire, page 78. From the entry trougher

Meaning of elegance

1. noun Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
2. noun Restraint and grace of style.
3. noun The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

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How do you use elegance in a sentence?

Elegance is used as a noun. For example: “The bride was elegance personified.”

What is a short sentence with elegance?

“The bride was elegance personified.”

What does elegance mean?

Elegance means grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.