sylphlike
Example Sentences
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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
Although now sylphlike, she says that she was overweight when she began college and has written about her triumphant 30-pound weight loss.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2011
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
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
So youthful, so girlish and fair of face, so sylphlike in form was she, that her appearance was of far more significance in their estimation than their apparent lack of appreciation might betoken.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
