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[ US /ˈwɪɫəwi/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪlə‍ʊi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. slender and graceful

How To Use willowy In A Sentence

  • Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
  • Her willowy hair and crystalline eyes caused people to turn and look when she was carried into a room. Christianity Today
  • Tall, well over six foot, but a bendy, willowy uncertain tall, brown one-year sapling rather than slow growing sturdy branch, the tree metaphor extended by the catkins of his light brown dreadlocks, loose and shot with streaks of blondness denoting, she thought fancifully, the several summers he had lived through since he first grew them. Occasional sunshine
  • Rhoda's willowy figure, modish straw hat, and fuchsia gloves and shoes surprised Janice.
  • She was thin and willowy and beautiful, and she was neither young nor old.
  • A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
  • The soldier is played by Basim Hamed, a willowy, 31-year-old sculptor who shaved his shoulder-length hair and grew a mustache for the part.
  • Extra timber needed to be added to his willowy 6ft 6in frame. Times, Sunday Times
  • Breathe wisteria, lavender, lobelia as you wander willowy riverbanks.
  • Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical.
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