How to use "elegant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "elegant" in popular movie and book plots

  • In four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai (Qing dynasty), several affairs are described.  - Flowers of Shanghai
  • Curran takes Claire on a tour of Navy SEAL training and attempts to woo the journalist over an elegant dinner.  - Navy SEALs (film)
  • The play opens at La Comédie Française, an elegant theatre where Marguerite st Just is performing in her final show ("Storybook").  - The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical)
  • The film features a sheep that lives in the American West whose elegant dancing is popular with the other animals.  - Boundin'
  • Sarah enters the ballroom in an elegant red ball gown and approaches von Krolock.  - Dance of the Vampires
  • The work has been praised for its elegant style, and the discretion with which the subject is treated.  - Les amitiés particulières
  • Just then, Sally astonishes everyone by arriving in an elegant gown and tiara and speaking with a perfect upper-crust accent.  - Me and My Girl
  • Amelia is an interior designer, originally from Argentina, and lives in a large, elegant house in Hollywood.  - White Oleander
  • She invites him to an elegant dinner at a high-end restaurant as a gesture of gratitude for his actions earlier.  - Monsieur Verdoux
  • The stepmother and stepsisters demand that Cinderella sew all three of them elegant gowns for the ball from the fabric of their old dresses.  - The Slipper and the Rose
  • The primary subplot involves a young man in a white suit – an elegant gangster – and his lover, who explore erotic ways to use food.  - Tampopo
  • Now she's there with only her dresser, an elegant elderly lady who was herself once a brief star or "morning glory".  - Morning Glory (1933 film)
  • After he and Emma attend an elegant ball given by the Marquis d'Andervilliers, Emma finds her married life dull and becomes listless.  - Madame Bovary
  • An elegant ball takes place on Christmas Eve.  - Meet Me in St. Louis
  • His girlfriend, nightclub owner Missouri Martin, helps transform Annie from a dowdy street peddler to an elegant dowager.  - Lady for a Day
  • Phyllis Rogers Stone, a stylish and elegant woman, also arrives with her husband Ben, a renowned philanthropist and politician.  - Follies

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