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

On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike 210 lbs.

From Time Magazine Archive

A figure of medium height, neither sylphlike nor slender, but of full physical outline, in points even imposing.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne