ELEGANCE in a Sentence

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188 example sentences for ELEGANCE, such as:

1. Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
2. But Gerald could never attain elegance.
3. We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
4. Her family was proud of its gentility and elegance.
5. The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELEGANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
elegance
 n.  refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
Classic Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
1  And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened Susan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But Gerald could never attain elegance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Scarlett felt that it gave her the final finishing touch of elegance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  And the air of supercilious elegance which had clung about him in his striking Zouave uniform was completely gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  "Personally, I do not intend to call on Scarlett now or ever," she said, the chill elegance of her face colder than usual.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
9  "Oh, Lily, that's nice of you," she merely sighed across the chaos of letters, bills and other domestic documents which gave an incongruously commercial touch to the slender elegance of her writing-table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  She liked their elegance, their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  She could not figure herself as anywhere but in a drawing-room, diffusing elegance as a flower sheds perfume.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  If their resonant hilarity could never be hers, she contributed a note of easy elegance more valuable to Mattie Gormer than the louder passages of the band.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  As often happens, the pupil had outstripped the teacher, and Mrs. Hatch was already aware of heights of elegance as well as depths of luxury beyond the world of the Emporium.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
15  Even the handkerchief in my breast-pocket, worn for elegance and not at all for use, was wet through by the time that moribund woman sank for the last time into the arms of her lover.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The ornamental ironwork lends a touch of elegance to the house.
2  In the dining-room the draperies create an atmosphere of elegance.
3  Throughout life's complications, you should maintain such a sense of elegance.
4  Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
5  The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
6  I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.
7  We greatly admired her well-bred, patrician elegance.
8  Her family was proud of its gentility and elegance.
9  When she stepped onto the floor each week, she was a vision in elegance, grace, and beauty.
10  We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
11  Among jumbo jets, Concorde always looked astonishingly small; its slim elegant lines still the most stylish in the airport.
12  The giant redwoods and high cliffs dwarf the elegant Ahwahnee Hotel, making it appear a modest lodge rather than an imposing hostelry.
13  Although it looks old and worn, the interior is all about contemporary shapes and elegant furnishings.
14  This elegant, 19th-century chateau has a total of some 800 square meters, over 4 floors.
15  Compared to the sophisticated young ladies in their elegant gowns, tomboyish Jo felt gauche and out of place.