Sample Sentences for
elegant
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elegant as in:  an elegant gown

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She was an elegant bride.
elegant = refined and tasteful
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    It was an elegant dinner party.
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    But these unbelievably elegant apartments will be shown by appointment only.  (source)
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    I am an elegant fellow in her pictures, with my silver back gleaming like moon on moss.  (source)
    elegant = attractive
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    Of course, he meant "Danger — gas!" but he thought "RSVP" looked more elegant.  (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
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    I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it.  (source)
    elegance = refinement (fine style and tastefulness)
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    Did it seem likely that his mother, who sat so elegantly in meeting, had ever touched a choke-weed?  (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner
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    I grab a few dollars from the cash stash in my purse, round out my drawer, stow my inelegant green smock on a hook in the back room, run to the bathroom to take a quick peek in the mirror.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegant means not and reverses the meaning of elegant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Mortenson tried to emulate him, but bent only partway forward, stopping when he felt the flaps of his torn shirt gaping inelegantly and the breath of the fan on his bare back.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegantly means not and reverses the meaning of elegantly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    CYRANO: True; all my elegances are within.†  (source)
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    One, power; and two, inelegance.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegance means not and reverses the meaning of elegance. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But he loves it for its elegancy, not for its austerity.†  (source)
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    "She's so elegant," Marlee whispered to me, tilting her head toward Ashley.  (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
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    The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.  (source)
    elegance = grace and style
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elegant as in:  as elegant equation

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It is an elegant solution that will reduce complexity and save material.
elegant = simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate
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    Einstein's Theory of Relativity was an elegant solution to the contradiction that a constant speed of light created within Newtonian physics.
    elegant = simple (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate
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    But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette.  (source)
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    I fully concede, however, that the Book is a more elegant solution.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    It was the sheer elegance of it that pleased her most.  (source)
    elegance = simplicity and effectiveness
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    Nor should they, but there are more elegant solutions than yours.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    "The smallfolk will love you more if you are kind," she had said, so Cersei had ordered the value of the gowns deducted from the women's wages, a much more elegant solution.  (source)
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    "A most elegant solution," Angela proclaimed, "but who, pray tell, provides the continuous stream of energy needed to maintain this counterspell?"  (source)
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    It was a beautiful, deadly weapon, but just by looking at it, Eragon could see that Rhunon had forged Tamerlein for a person with a fighting style different from his own, a style that relied more on cutting and slashing than the faster, more elegant techniques Brom had taught him.  (source)
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    Eragon watched with amazement as his hands transformed the crude lump of metal into an elegant instrument of war.  (source)
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