Learn How to Pronounce SUAVE – SUAVE in a Sentence

Learn how to pronounce SUAVE correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see SUAVE in a sentence along with an illustration as a memory aid.

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SUAVE – it’s an adjective with 1 syllable.

It’s pronounced: SWAV

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SUAVE
Definition:
courteous, charming, elegant, sophisticated, gracious (typically used of a man)

The clipart shows a smartly dressed man doffing his hat.

Here is an illustrated sentence example . . .

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The picture shows a poster from a James Bond movie.

The sentence reads: In this movie poster, actor Daniel Craig maintains the traditional perception of James Bond as smooth, suave, and sophisticated.

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Examples of SUAVE from news items:

This convenient three-act structure, which catches Jobs at three key moments in his life, also serves as a metaphor for the contrast between his suave public persona and his chaotic life.
Source: Nature
http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/wOGPb0UZ5mQ/527036a

Boehner’s problem with the militant right is not that he isn’t a conservative — he is — but that he is suave rather than confrontational.
Source: Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2015/01/05/re-elect-progressive-scourge-john-boehner-speaker-of-the-house/

“The day after the operation, I was going round publishing houses trying to look suave and normal, and I was in a cold sweat,” he revealed in a 2011 interview with the Guardian.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/15/novelist-nicholas-evans-dead/

The charming, suave executive stood out in the staid world of banking at the time.
Source: BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60035318

Underneath Pike’s suave confidence hums a fear of what’s coming and the fact that his future coincides with the death of two young people in his charge.
Source: Salon
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/08/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-1/

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