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Definition of willowy in English: willowyadjectivewillowiest, willowierˈwɪləʊiˈwɪloʊi 1Bordered, shaded, or covered by willows. Example sentencesExamples - Breathe wisteria, lavender, lobelia as you wander willowy riverbanks.
- Then we descended through open willowy meadows with beautiful views of the mountains, following a stream.
2(of a person) tall, slim, and lithe. a beautiful willowy blonde Example sentencesExamples - Across the room a willowy woman in a svelte black dress aimed carelessly at a pool ball and knocked five solids home with one shot as Carson watched, amazed.
- One dancer slings his willowy partner over his back, mistimes the weight shift and staggers like a powerlifter pressing a half-ton barbell.
- A willowy, friendly young woman settled me down on a sofa with the menu, home-made crisps expertly flavoured with sea salt and spring onions, good olives and spicy little mushroom won tons.
- As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
- She was willowy and graceful, with a sharp face.
- Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
- But age only added dignity and grace to her still slim and willowy figure.
- Go for an outfit loosely inspired by the 1920s, drop-waisted, flapper look, which suits willowy, skinny types like you.
- The fair, willowy girl had stars in her eyes when at the age of twenty, she was married to the tall and handsome young man with a four-figure salary.
- She was thin and willowy and beautiful, and she was neither young nor old.
- Her tall, willowy figure with its slight hour-glass shape was the envy of all women who had seen her.
- Certainly, school bags are heavy these days and I often feel a pang when I see my willowy 12-year-old daughter shouldering her heavy bag as she trudges off to school.
- A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
- I'd arrived there with two willowy 14-year-olds, all bare midriffs and attitude, feeling that along with the luggage I had probably also packed a whole load of trouble.
- His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
- ‘Perhaps I will have that ciggy,’ she says, trying to come on all Parisian, as her willowy character learns that Charlie, her husband of three months, is dead and she is the prime suspect.
- I spoke to a willowy girl from Adelphi University visiting the show one day for her anthropology course.
- She was thin and willowy, two unfair words to describe what she was, and was wearing an almost-black fur coat, almost long, almost handsome.
- She was a willowy, graceful girl, around my age.
- He was only fifteen, and had a willowy and slightly feminine frame.
Synonyms tall, slim, slender, lean, svelte, lissom, sylphlike, snake-hipped, rangy, long-limbed, clean-limbed, graceful, lithe, loose-limbed informal slinky rare gracile, attenuate
Definition of willowy in US English: willowyadjectiveˈwilōēˈwɪloʊi 1Bordered, shaded, or covered by willows. Example sentencesExamples - Then we descended through open willowy meadows with beautiful views of the mountains, following a stream.
- Breathe wisteria, lavender, lobelia as you wander willowy riverbanks.
2(of a person) tall, slim, and lithe. Example sentencesExamples - Across the room a willowy woman in a svelte black dress aimed carelessly at a pool ball and knocked five solids home with one shot as Carson watched, amazed.
- But age only added dignity and grace to her still slim and willowy figure.
- The fair, willowy girl had stars in her eyes when at the age of twenty, she was married to the tall and handsome young man with a four-figure salary.
- Certainly, school bags are heavy these days and I often feel a pang when I see my willowy 12-year-old daughter shouldering her heavy bag as she trudges off to school.
- She was a willowy, graceful girl, around my age.
- She was willowy and graceful, with a sharp face.
- Go for an outfit loosely inspired by the 1920s, drop-waisted, flapper look, which suits willowy, skinny types like you.
- She was thin and willowy and beautiful, and she was neither young nor old.
- ‘Perhaps I will have that ciggy,’ she says, trying to come on all Parisian, as her willowy character learns that Charlie, her husband of three months, is dead and she is the prime suspect.
- She was thin and willowy, two unfair words to describe what she was, and was wearing an almost-black fur coat, almost long, almost handsome.
- As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
- A willowy, friendly young woman settled me down on a sofa with the menu, home-made crisps expertly flavoured with sea salt and spring onions, good olives and spicy little mushroom won tons.
- He was only fifteen, and had a willowy and slightly feminine frame.
- A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
- I spoke to a willowy girl from Adelphi University visiting the show one day for her anthropology course.
- One dancer slings his willowy partner over his back, mistimes the weight shift and staggers like a powerlifter pressing a half-ton barbell.
- Her tall, willowy figure with its slight hour-glass shape was the envy of all women who had seen her.
- His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
- Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
- I'd arrived there with two willowy 14-year-olds, all bare midriffs and attitude, feeling that along with the luggage I had probably also packed a whole load of trouble.
Synonyms tall, slim, slender, lean, svelte, lissom, sylphlike, snake-hipped, rangy, long-limbed, clean-limbed, graceful, lithe, loose-limbed
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