Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofshapely : moreshapely
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Examples
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The more stress you increasingly place on your muscles, the more they tear down, being rebuilt as stronger and shapelier muscles.
Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011
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Jerry Turner, commander of 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, at Shinwar, that some young men under his command had eyebrows shapelier than Nature intended.
About-Face: Soldiers Target Stray Eyebrows in Afghanistan Michael M. Phillips 2011
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The more stress you increasingly place on your muscles, the more they tear down, being rebuilt as stronger and shapelier muscles.
Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011
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Kara tipped the scales at 9,800 pounds in January 2009, but she was down to a shapelier 8,735 pounds at a weigh-in late last month.
Zoos are cutting calories, increasing exercise for overweight elephants Marc Benjamin 2010
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That translates into a shapelier waist, which, studies and pick-up line frequency charts show, makes you more attractive to others.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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In the Local Group, as elsewhere in the Universe, however, dwarf galaxies outnumber their larger, shapelier cousins, such as the Milky Way, the Andromeda and the Triangulum galaxies.
Straight From the Island of Misfit Galaxies: Barnard | Universe Today 2009
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That translates into a shapelier waist, which, studies and pick-up line frequency charts show, makes you more attractive to others.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Based on what's known about the beauty premium, and now on how personality can boost kids 'GPA through mechanisms unrelated to actual brainpower, what if gene X is in fact producing a shapelier nose, or prettier eyes, or a sunny personality, and not, for instance, making synapses denser or brain neurons more efficient or causing some other effect that increases intelligence?
New Bork, New York 2009
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That translates into a shapelier waist, which, studies and pick-up line frequency charts show, makes you more attractive to others.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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The plotting is tight and the book is shapelier than Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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