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
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
Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had thrown a white shawl over her head and shoulders, and looked adorably sylphlike as she turned on hearing his footsteps; the moonlight shone on her face and was reflected in her eyes.
From Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy
