FLUENT in a Sentence

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For FLUENT, below is one of 13 sentences:
She was not very tall, a bit Scottish and short; but she had a certain fluent, down-slipping grace that might have been beauty.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLUENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fluent
 a.  easy and graceful in shape; graceful; smooth and unconstrained in movement
Classic Sentence:
1  Cousin Tom, though not fluent in speech, had inspired me with that desire by his eloquent description of the place.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  He was not a remarkably fluent reader, and was in the habit of reading in a sort of recitative half-aloud, by way of calling in his ears to verify the deductions of his eyes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  She was not very tall, a bit Scottish and short; but she had a certain fluent, down-slipping grace that might have been beauty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  'I have just received permission to go and earn my obrok,' is your fluent explanation.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
6  Copious indeed, Drances, and fluent is ever thy speech at the moment war calls for action; and when the fathers are summoned thou art there the first.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  The successful candidate will be fluent in French and German.
2  He is fluent in a dozen foreign languages.
3  She studied eight foreign languages but is fluent in only six of them.
4  She is fluent in five languages.
5  She rose with the fluent movement of an athlete.
6  He knows quite a lot of French, but he's at an in-between stage and not fluent yet.
7  There was a yacht with long, fluent curves in water.