sylphlike
- a word derived from sylph.
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
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
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
When Nadia tried to re-create her glory in 1980, audiences hardly recognized the once sylphlike pixie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their gross exaggeration was fondly counted upon to make her appear sylphlike by comparison with the images she raised.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
