Dictionary entry
Svelte
Pronunciation: /svɛlt/
Pronunciation
/svɛlt/
Myanmar Meaning
သွယ်ပျောင်းသော၊ ယဉ်ကျေးသိမ်မွေ့သော။
Definition
svelte /svelt, sfelt/ adj ( approv ) ႏြဲ႕ေနာင္းေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းေသာ။ သြယ္လ်ေသာ။ a svelte figure.
Examples
- ‘She admired her own svelte figure in the mirror and repeated to herself her resolution - stay away from sweets.’
- ‘If you were to copy Geraldine's eating habits you too would have a svelte figure.’
- ‘Now six months after our baby is born
- she's svelte and beautiful.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The obsession with svelte figures flies in the face of past beliefs that regarded those who were thin as being unhealthy and malnourished.’
- ‘Born in Hyderabad and brought up in Chicago
- this svelte lady is all set to explode on the silver screen.’
- ‘She is never going to be svelte
- and that's okay
- but dropping a few wouldn't hurt - the curves will remain.’
- ‘He was the silent man behind the svelte lady as she went about her work promoting Limca.’
- ‘Her svelte figure and air of haughty independence
- which so obviously masked some tragic loneliness
- suggested she'd never been a mother.’
- ‘He sees that she's looking rather less svelte than normal.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘They were both from Pakistan: he was tall
- dark and handsome
- and she was equally tall
- svelte
- and beautiful.’
- ‘Louis
- as you can see
- is a gorgeous
- svelte figure of a man himself.’
- ‘She has undoubtedly worked hard to regain her svelte figure so quickly
- but if one more newspaper asks ‘how did she do it?’’
- ‘Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture
- a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.’
- ‘My brother
- his tall
- thin wife and her equally svelte sister were also visiting.’
- ‘I can now eat what I like and still have a svelte figure.’
- ‘It's amazing how I still manage to keep my svelte figure.’
- ‘It's hard to reconcile the svelte woman sitting in a suite in the Dorchester Hotel with a victim.’