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How to use suave in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective, noun

Suave means of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated. Example: “Gideon, with his suave charm and hankering for hotties, was on the fast track to playerhood.”

Examples of suave by meaning

adjectiveOf a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

  • a man with a suave demeanor

More sentences with suave

  • Gideon, with his suave charm and hankering for hotties, was on the fast track to playerhood.2014, Lisa Marie Perry, Just for Christmas Night, page 177. From the entry playerhood
  • Nothing like a pint of dog to establish oneself as a suave sophisticate.2006, Verity Stob, The Best of Verity Stob, page 8. From the entry dog
  • "Out of sight!" praised a suave and youthful mack daddy, boogying under the glittery flashing lights.2003, Ashaki Boelter, Distant Lover: All-4-Love Series 1 of 3, page 1. From the entry mack daddy
  • And here I always thought I liked Pierce Brosnan best well-groomed and suave.1995 March 9, Kevin Dreyer [signed Eileen], “Remington Steele”, in bit.listserv.rra-l (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025. From the entry unladilike
  • As young men will, I did my best to appear suave and sophisticated.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 28. From the entry will
  • Two of the theatres most suave ornaments recently found themselves out-suaved by Mme.1955, Theatre Arts, volume 39, Pardon Our French, page 11. From the entry out-suave
  • The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away.1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 65. From the entry cat
  • He’s suave, charming and wants to date you.2021 December 8, Josie Copson, “The rise of salt daddy dating: meet the fake sugar daddies intent on scamming women”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry date up
  • Joanna Gosling more than made up for missing her cue on BBC News this morning (October 27) with a suave recovery.2015 October 27, Harry Fletcher, “Watch BBC newsreader Joanna Gosling style it out after missing her cue”, in Digital Spy. From the entry style it out
  • Perhaps Percy Petley had what some of our suave cosmopolitan hoteliers lack; a grating voice and rat-trap delivery.1972, Edward Rodwell, “[The Coast and Beyond] Pioneers of the Tourist Trade”, in Coast Causerie: Stories of the Coast and Beyond, Nairobi…. From the entry maître d'hotel
  • Patel has a ready wit, the sort of um-er cleverness that purports to be mental dishevelledness but actually implies a suave urbanity.2010 November 29, Lauren Collins, “Are You the Messiah?”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dishevelledness
  • He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud.2004, TV Guide, volume 52, page 26. From the entry ubernerdy
  • Our suave President sallies forth with another joyously self-effacing witticism, putting Americans everywhere in mind of Bob Hope at his best or Jay Leno.2004 December, “Current Wisdom”, in The American Spectator, volume 37, number 100, Arlington, V.A.: The American Spectator, LLC, →ISSN…. From the entry misogelastic
  • And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour. From the entry commonplace
  • Cooke, and Billy Moll, is suave, cool, a classy dresser, slick to the point of being oily, vacillating—and seemingly white; in brief, the “most uncertainest he-vamp in the land.”2015, John Bush Jones, “Typecasting—Southern Social and Ethnic, That Is”, in Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley’s Songs and the Creation of…. From the entry uncertainest
  • Though both are virgins, Violet develops a crush on a dapper, eerily suave student at N.Y.U. who moonlights as a club promoter and appears regularly on Page Six.2009 March 13, Holly Brubach, “America’s Next Top Author”, in New York Times. From the entry skeeved
  • Peter held the door for her, found her a chair, and fetched two cafés au lait, all with an ease that had elements of both fatherliness and suave date.2005, Cheryl Mendelson, Love, Work, Children: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN, page 320. From the entry cafés au lait
  • The voice came from the end of the divan but Hermione, seated square before the fire on a low pouffe did not turn to face its suave producer.1922, H.D., Asphodel. From the entry pouf
  • Stupid, ignorant, unsuspicious, trusting, it did not take long for this suave promoter to "gold brick" the poor widow of her little insurance money and the little savings of years.1931, Fur Trade Journal of Canada - Volumes 9-11, page 22. From the entry gold brick

Meaning of suave

  1. adjective Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.
  2. adjective Displaying smoothness and sophistication.
  3. adjective Gracious, kind.

Full definition of suave

Questions about suave in a sentence

How do you use suave in a sentence?
Suave is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Gideon, with his suave charm and hankering for hotties, was on the fast track to playerhood.”
What is a short sentence with suave?
“a man with a suave demeanor”
What does suave mean?
Suave means of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suave (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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