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
The sylphlike Prince of Pop even dominated the show's commercial breaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, her mouth was really shaped like a Cupid's bow, and her teeth were dazzling; also she had a wealth of dense, soft, brown hair and a tall, sylphlike, slimly-rounded figure.
From Love's Shadow by Ada Leverson
