sylph
noun
a slender, graceful woman or girl.
sylphlike
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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
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
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
With the Olympics coming up in mid-July, the Dole campaigning had to start defining the candidate before America's attention turned to sylphlike gymnasts and gargantuan weight lifters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against the sombre background the arbor-vitae made, her slight figure, clad in soft, clinging white, seemed airy and sylphlike.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard
