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
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
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
To Stefania Sandrelli, 20, sylphlike innocent angel of Seduced and Abandoned; and a lover whom she refuses to identify: a daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland last October.
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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
