lithe

Example Sentences

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If you can imagine the strutting Nicolas Cage and lithe Laura Dern of David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” but with an apartment and a kid, that’s them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The lithe physique of the rubber man of tennis enabled him to chase down seemingly lost causes and he combined a brutally efficient game with a rock-solid defence.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

The cast includes William Warfield, Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway, who at one point is shown scat-singing in a Vienna tavern, a born entertainer caught in a wonderfully loose, lithe and swinging performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

With the lithe, athletic body of the ballerina, she was nothing like her fellow models.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

But who this lithe young man was, and where his cane-stalk legs carried him from or to, could never be known.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison