lissom

Example Sentences

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It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 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

You would expect lissom harmonies and dreamy-eyed songs about girls, of which there are plenty tonight – not least "Candyfloss", their single.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 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

But the lissom young men and the giggling girls trooped across the rick-yard to the level meadow, which the sheep had cropped close, and which had been also carefully mown for the purpose.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard