sylphlike
Example Sentences
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“The Dick Van Dyke Show” made Ms. Moore, who looked sylphlike in capri pants, a sensation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
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
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
When the door had closed after them one or two men who had already heard of the duel imparted the information to the sylphlike ladies, who received it with little shrieks of humane concern.
From The Point Of Honor A Military Tale by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
