sylphlike
Example Sentences
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“The Dick Van Dyke Show” made Ms. Moore, who looked sylphlike in capri pants, a sensation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
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
Ms. Streep, in her early, major phase was variously enigmatic, severe, wounded, butch, sylphlike and aristocratic, changing souls as easily as she changed hair colors and styles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010
Calder's first, more sylphlike stabile was created in 1931 when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp.
From Time Magazine Archive
For at this writing in those parts the slender, sylphlike string-bean is not playing a minor part, as with us.
From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
