lissom

Example Sentences

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The house style is proudly melodic and lissom techno, but it has a sideline in transcendent ambient and also invented the glam rock-inflected "schaffel" sound.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

They are a lot of fun to watch, all those scampering, lissom, midfield attackers.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

Miss Hinman was pretty, was very slender—what a school-girl writer would call willowy or lissom or, possibly, svelte—and was wildly devoted to her little nephew, of whom she had the chief care.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley