"svelte figure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone (or something) with an attractive, slender, and graceful body shape. For example, "The model's svelte figure looked stunning on the catwalk."
And for those who detest counting calories, there may be a shortcut to a svelte figure.
He also commented on Tory peer and businesswoman Karen Brady's "svelte" figure.
She is a petite dynamo of eighty-five, with a svelte figure and a throaty laugh.
Meanwhile, every woman longed for a bias-cut, silk-satin gown like Gertie's, a svelte figure, and sensational shoes.
Never a svelte figure, Mr. Gingrich seems to have put on weight as the campaign has entered its seventh month.
The svelte figures of Jessica Ennis, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mo Farah are still adorning billboards across the country in glorious celebration of the Olympics but imagine if those radiant figures were joined by Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen.
Weight issues in Hollywood are somewhat of a norm, but what we need to see are more women taking a stand against the pressure to maintain unhealthy, svelte figures.
Wearing a blue dress which flattered her newly-svelte figure and a sequinned jacket, Britton sat on the sofa flanked by her screen partner Phillip Schofield and her real life husband, TV chef Phil Vickery as tributes were paid.
On Saturday night at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, two years after undergoing gastric bypass surgery and slimming down to her svelte new figure, Ms. Voigt sang her first staged performances of "Salome" in a new production of Strauss's 1905 opera directed by Francesca Zambello.
Every aspect of her life story has been scrutinized, from the way she walked to how svelte her figure was.
