sylphlike
IPA: sˈɪɫfɫaɪk
adjective
- Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.
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Examples of "sylphlike" in Sentences
- "I've always been a good eater," says sylphlike Bernstein, a former ballet dancer.
- More often, we meet for a bite at the odd café on Beverly Blvd. under the pretext of giving some truly sylphlike barely eighteen-year-old “actress” this or that “script,” naturally.
- In a 1961 photograph of Burroughs in Tangiers (with poet Gregory Corso and composer and author Paul Bowles), there are also two sylphlike boys, just past adolescence, crouching in the background.
- Miranda, a sylphlike 11-year-old who was pinned beneath her crumpled home and watched her father die, says her favorite thing about the arts program was "for sure talking and drawing about my life."
- After this winter especially, if you've been patrolling farmers' markets since March for signs of miniature vegetables, sylphlike asparagus and potatoes the size of 24-carat diamonds, you are not alone.
- The mood is not indigo but sepia and the action – what there is of it – takes place in an authentically frumpy suburban sitting room designer Alison Chitty furnished with bulbous sofas and sad, sylphlike Lesley Manville.
- Fronting a tight six-piece band, the sylphlike singer with the auburn-tinted hair appropriately rocked a look similar to Tina Turner's character Aunty Entity from the 1985 sci-fi flick, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," only sexier.
- “In casual conversation we hear this idea expressed all the time: Anorexia is caused by the incessant drumbeat of modern dieting, by the erotic veneration of sylphlike women,” writes Joan Jacobs Brumberg in her masterpiece Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa.
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