sylphlike
Example Sentences
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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
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)
