lissom

Example Sentences

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As a lissom 20-year-old I resented my waddly disguise, but came around to a riveting truth: being attractive was less useful to me than being free.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2018

All-girl lissom folk harmonies meets multilayered all-girl vocal R&B. Intriguingly, tonight each sister has a drum next to her.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

Now, however, she could take over her charge again, and teach them things that would make them lissom, quick, interested, and gay.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von