lissom

Example Sentences

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Somewhere along the way during the past 14 years the lissom whippersnapper with the fleet feet turned into the craggy old hulk who will line up against England on Sunday.

From The Guardian • Feb. 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

"Certainly one of the longest," I said, thinking of those unending lissom limbs swathed in the Futurist draperies of that cobra-woman.

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver