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
Now he's down to a trim 39-in. waist and a sylphlike 220 lbs., and he aims to shave off 20 lbs. more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alack! how becoming were these concoctions to minxes with fair hair and sylphlike frames!
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
