How to Use artful in a Sentence

artful

adjective
  • Since 2007, fans of the store have visited to shop and to see the artful displays.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The designs in the mold make your cookies look like artful tiles.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The graphic lines of the rug, cocktail table, and Barcelona give the space an artful edge.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Of course Linda’s clients are thrilled with the thoughtful and artful design choices made in the space.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But he has not been swayed by any of their catchy slogans or artful headshots.
    Zia Ur-Rehman Saiyna Bashir, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The only drawback to the show was that Badu’s artful projected backdrop took up all of the stage’s screen space.
    Natalie Weiner, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • The rats, who had drowned in a rainstorm, lay in artful counterpoint, as though posing for a still-life.
    Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In an artful touch, the waste-nothing chef finishes the plate with tortilla ash.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the lavish bathroom, an artful grid of bronze knobs is strung across a stretch of storage like beads on a necklace.
    Anita Sarsidi, ELLE Decor, 26 May 2023
  • With fine dining-style small plates and artful cupcakes, there's never been a better time for the dogs to dine out.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Add a playful pop to your nighttime routine with this artful set.
    Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Candles flicker along the stairs, transforming the gourds from artful to eerie.
    Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Streamlined — and artful — menus Forget the multi-page menu.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This wool and cashmere-blend with the Loewe Anagram is a subtle, artful addition to any room.
    Lyndsey Noel, harpersbazaar.com, 7 June 2023
  • Within an all-white room, the farm’s catering team had arranged an artful display of desserts.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 26 July 2022
  • The artful theme included a large dragonfly on the evening’s program.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Loaded with detail, the dress was complete with a lace-up back, corset boning, and artful draping.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Inside, the decor is artful-sparse, with dozens of crates of music—good, bad, old, older, very old—lining three row of tables and a lot of floor space.
    Hunter Harris, ELLE, 7 Mar. 2023
  • All that is required is a creative idea, an artful solution and time.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 29 July 2022
  • In a piece this sensitive, is there latitude to be artful?
    Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Private time is strongly accented by the new Moon of the 15th, and so is the importance of artful strategizing.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But the artful dodgers that Lt. Rafferty wrote about are plentiful.
    Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, in echoing the artful digs, over at the hotels’ flagship restaurant on the lobby floor is Lockbox.
    Tiffany Leigh, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • His hair does an artful swoop and his beard is just as meticulously sculpted.
    Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • But in Anantharaman’s work, the joy of being young and alive is frozen in time through anatomical specificity and an artful eye.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Their chat gets a visual lift from artful graphics that redesign the setting from moment to moment.
    Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Shayk made the look even more sensual in an artful pair of Alaïa sandals featuring a heel sculpted to look like a taut derrière and toned set of legs.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The designer is known for her modern and artful approach to jewelry that’s more akin to objets d’art.
    Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 3 July 2023
  • This morning, Pugh again wore the Altuzarra leather jacket, but swapped the base for an artful body-con maxi dress that featured an abstract print in orange, cream, black, and gray.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But Nemes achieves a more artful and finally more persuasive vision of hell on Earth.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

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