sylphlike
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The parties you have scribbled in your calendar seem more glittery or interesting or fun, and you in the shoes, more daunting, more sylphlike, more free, more invulnerable.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2012
Although now sylphlike, she says that she was overweight when she began college and has written about her triumphant 30-pound weight loss.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2011
Most of it was shot in California, where Hepburn — then a brand-new mother, despite her sylphlike shape — relocated to Coldwater Canyon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2010
Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had red cheeks and was ashamed of them, and my stocky, square-shouldered figure was anything but sylphlike.
From Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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