well-turned

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-turned
Adjective
  • The buxom installation was executive produced by Amy Kule of Merry Wonderer, who previously spent 20 years leading the production of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Fourth of July Fireworks, and the department store’s Herald Square Flower Show before launching her own creative agency.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • That buxom elf put wind in my sails, so to speak, and now this other, prettier woman is bumming a cigarette off me.
    Liam Sherwin-Murray, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Our film features six experts, each a specialist with pithy perspectives on biomedical, legal, moral, environmental and other questions around kids' safety and well-being beyond Earth.
    Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Yet this is more than a pithy maxim, it’s grounded in science.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans were hyped to see Ice regain her voluptuous figure and showed her love in the replies.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The voluptuous installation, spearheaded by Amy Kule, a longtime producer of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fourth of July Fireworks show, will remain on display through Wednesday (March 5).
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Though its action is depicted crisply and clearly, its epigrammatic shots aim straight for the viewer’s unconscious, making only glancing contact with the rational mind.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) The best and most entertaining biography ever written in English — addictive for its prescient, informal, racy prose and Johnson's epigrammatic precision and enduring decency.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 20 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • Hints, Clues And Answers For Thursday, April 3 A succinct, high-impact profile captures attention and encourages the reader to explore your CV further.
    Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • His subsequent 30-minute address was a succinct tribute to the hope and optimism the incoming president offered in his campaign.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Colleges that are less well-endowed might have fewer proxies that strain their financial aid budget, but still should use individualized proxies to meet their institutional needs.
    Scott White, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Unfortunately, as anyone else who is well-endowed can likely attest, one-pieces seldom do the girls justice.
    Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
  • It’s packed with moisture-boosting ingredients that leave your skin feeling plump, dewy and ready to glow.
    Maria Correa, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Audiences have no choice but to exist in the theatrical moment, without recourse to linear logic, sententious language or psychological epiphanies.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This is a bracing, even novel, perspective on a war whose film depictions so often traffic in sententious Greatest Generation platitudes.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Well-turned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/well-turned. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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