lissom

Example Sentences

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It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2013

Somewhere along the way during the past 14 years the lissom whippersnapper with the fleet feet turned into the craggy old hulk who will line up against England on Sunday.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2013

"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

Oh, he had thought, if he could only be as free, and had their lithesome, lissom wings!

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon