sylphs
- plural of sylph.
Example Sentences
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His talk was to be about sylphs, and, needless to say, I didn’t want to go with you, but she insisted.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2020
She’s a superstar in a comedy universe dominated by boys’ clubs and sylphs, and she’s funny as hell.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2016
Only in the light “Chopiniana,” a dream of sylphs and a Romantic poet in a wood at night, does Fokine’s original company give his dance theater any substance.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2012
Pieces such as Bleeding Fairies in 1977 deconstructed the ballet stereo-types of swans, nymphs, sylphs and earth mothers in a menstrual riot of radical feminism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011
The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
