How To Use Willowy In A Sentence
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Then, before I can stop him, he calls a willowy black male over, saying carelessly, Brett, this is the guy I told you about—now you take care my friend, ’kaaaay?
Hollywood Savage
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Her willowy hair and crystalline eyes caused people to turn and look when she was carried into a room.
Christianity Today
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Rhoda's willowy figure, modish straw hat, and fuchsia gloves and shoes surprised Janice.
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She was thin and willowy and beautiful, and she was neither young nor old.
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A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
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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.
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Extra timber needed to be added to his willowy 6ft 6in frame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Breathe wisteria, lavender, lobelia as you wander willowy riverbanks.
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Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical.
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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.
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The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons.
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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
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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.
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Outside, she was a willowy blonde with an eye for fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get past the strawberry blond tresses and her willowy, sultry looks, and Sutton's intelligence is manifest in all she does.
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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.
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She'd have the problem of reminding him she's a girl, as attractive in her way as all the willowy bulemic brunettes around, while also making sure he knows she's off limits until the ring's on her finger.
Lance Does the Strip: James Wolcott
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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.
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Among these immigrants, these strange foreigners, he notices a strange figure: a willowy gamine dancing to entertain the staff.
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One dancer slings his willowy partner over his back, mistimes the weight shift and staggers like a powerlifter pressing a half-ton barbell.
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She was lithe, willowy, and could wear such a garment with the praise and ogles of the opposite sex.
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At first, America focused its anger and military might on the willowy figure spewing out uncompromising messages of hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Go for an outfit loosely inspired by the 1920s, drop-waisted, flapper look, which suits willowy, skinny types like you.
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One dancer slings his willowy partner over his back, mistimes the weight shift and staggers like a powerlifter pressing a half-ton barbell.
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But the 80-year-old monster is about to walk down the aisle with a willowy young woman 54 years his junior.
The Sun
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Its sleeves flowed down her arms ending in a willowy drape nearly two feet long from which a golden tassel hung.
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In the space of a couple of weeks, the one-time "earth mother" and macrobiotic devotee has transformed herself from willowy waif into sexy, strapping Glamazonian.
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But age only added dignity and grace to her still slim and willowy figure.
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She was willowy and graceful, with a sharp face.
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He was only fifteen, and had a willowy and slightly feminine frame.
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He was cooling his heels at the bar with his date, a long-haired willowy blonde in a low-cut black dress.
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Perhaps the signs that this movie is some sort of dream are altogether too conspicuous: all three women look like willowy sisters, with their thin faces and reedy voices.
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Whitley, a willowy former City banker, peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse.
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The willowy and immaculate members of this class are physically contrasted to the squat and round-shouldered working class.
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Tall and willowy models swaggered down the catwalk, illuminated by a constant barrage of hundreds of camera flashes.
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Often eats ferri archery target food skin gloss ruddy willowy, needs the sufficient blood supplies.
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One-hundred - eighty-pound Roy, who looks willowy by comparison, answers for Oregon.
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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
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Forced rhubarb, with its slender, willowy stems, has been available since December.
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"You can look at this if you'd like," the dark-haired, willowy 14-year-old said, blushing slightly, yet serenely confident.
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Outside, a fair, willowy girl and a heavy-set woman in white were walking across the lawn.
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Of course there is that willowy woman who for all I know goes jeans shopping for fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her tall, willowy figure with its slight hour-glass shape was the envy of all women who had seen her.
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Tall and what is known as willowy, with dark chestnut hair, very broad, dark eyebrows, very soft, quick eyes, and a pretty mouth, -- when she did not accentuate it with lip-salve, -- she had more sheer quiet vitality than any girl I ever saw.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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I have potted them on (three to a three inch pot) and they are now an enticingly willowy six inches tall.
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I guess had to give up on the idea of ever being lithe or willowy.
Raziel
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As exciting as that is, it leaves fans here at home wondering when they'll be able to get their fill of the willowy musician.
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She is far more effective than many beauties, graceful and willowy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trees around them were thin and willowy, soft breezes shook their leaves and sounded like cheery tintinnabulations ringing throughout the air.
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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.
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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.
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She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
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The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt.
Isabelle
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She was taller than the redhead by an inch or two, being that she had the willowy yet graceful physique like that of a healthy ectomorphic body.
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A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
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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.
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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.
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I spoke to a willowy girl from Adelphi University visiting the show one day for her anthropology course.
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A woman born on the borders of an uneasy alliance of ages past between Tarahumara, Yaqui, and Pima, she was tall, almost willowy in the blossom of her youth.
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She was a willowy, graceful girl, around my age.
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I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke.
The Skrayling Tree
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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.
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She's standing beside an electric sign, which casts a blue and red glow onto her willowy frame.
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With her willowy, elegant figure, she could make almost anything look stylish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
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I can't see so well, it's getting dark and the reeds are tall here, willowy reeds that slap your face when you climb down with your rake and cull and dreg the day.
Dock
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Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
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‘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.
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Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
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Women are willowy and bosomy, men all come bearing a twin-bladed knife with serrated edge.
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Her classic beauty and willowy frame give her global appeal over those editorial models with distinctive looks.
The Sun
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Yes, but only if you have willowy thin legs that are longer than your torso.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doorkeeper was a tall, willowy man wearing a jacket and pantaloons of brown silk.
Lord of the Isles
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There was something willowy in the way she swung her slender hips the slightest bit as she rounded a table.
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He saw the deer hurled into the air, its willowy body limply somersaulting like a stuffed toy.
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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.
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The speaker, in choosing a pejorative term rather than an approbative term (say, ‘willowy’), manifests disapproval of ‘she.’
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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
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She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
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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.
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Here's a quick clip of her explaining to me that after cutting the final speech from The Tempest, she decided to put it back via the song in the end credits, which, she felt, had to be performed by the mighty Beth Gibbons, best known as the willowy, wounded - and occasionally wrathful - voice of Portishead.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order.
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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.
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Then we descended through open willowy meadows with beautiful views of the mountains, following a stream.
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If thin fly-away hair could be called willowy, she was willowy from head to toe.
Frank Lloyd Wright « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts
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To that end, maybe we'd all just prefer that advertisements assume that we are willowy creatures of mystery and grace, as opposed to normal sized people kind of galumphing about.
TheGloss
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She was pale and willowy, with violet eyes.
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Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
