lithe

These Olympians, almost none of them were alive when Snoop broke into music, the lithe kid from Long Beach alongside Dr. Dre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

These lithe creatures also have been observed in alpine areas of Oregon, but no population estimate is available there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

The lithe physique of the rubber man of tennis enabled him to chase down seemingly lost causes and he combined a brutally efficient game with a rock-solid defence.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

If there’s one person who knows how to let a particularly awful year glide off her lithe, pilates-perfect back, it’s Gwyneth Paltrow.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

When Lyra thought of his lithe golden shape, she felt ill with fear.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Pappano, the longtime music director of the Royal Opera House in London, offers a lighter, lither reading, not rushed but evenly flowing, airy even when agitated.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

Crispy-edged and light, like lither thin-crust pizzas, tortizzas can be topped with whatever you like and nothing you don’t.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

So in the long term on Mars I think we will eventually see a lighter, lither build than on Earth.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2012

Coutured and made up to seem a younger, taller, lither Davis, Neal reads her early lines with a castrating wit, accompanied by the flinging of an eyebrow for emphasis.

From Time ● Aug. 11, 2010

Oh, it’s I will guard your two lither lads,   In their burgh beside the sea,And it’s I will prove true man to them   If they will prove true to me.

From Andromeda and Other Poems by Kingsley, Charles

Beyond everything he enjoyed the sight of the lithest and most elegant of the girls, whom he knew to be Eliza Brating and who was dancing with a partner whose skill obviously needed no lessons.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold

Were the snake himself coiled round that consecrated bauble, the prayers of the devout Father Checkley would unclasp his lithest folds.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

I could brew a jug of Punch, and at a jig could dance down the lithest gambriler of those parts, Dan Meagher, the Blind Piper of Swords.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

The porteuses, said to be the lithest, hardiest women of the occident, wore a pitiable look of fatigue, as they came down from the hill-trails, steadying the baskets upon their heads.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

This Gunnar was the best skilled in weapons, and the lithest of limb of all bonderfolk who have been in Iceland; the second was Gunnar of Lithend; but Steinthor of Ere was the third.

From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by Morris, William