sylph

How To Use sylph In A Sentence

• Over the years she has put on about 130 pounds but still dresses as if she were a sylph.
• La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
• The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
• I want to say that was a sylph… but surely they all died or fled long ago, didn't they?
• 'You're not exactly sylphlike, are you?' she said to her fat friend.
• Her most illustrious parts were the title roles of Giselle, La Sylphide, and Esmeralda.
• I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.
• You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also. Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.
• Growing up chubby with three sylphlike younger sisters, I was always in search of a quick fix to my weight problem.
• The Long-tailed Sylph occurs in highlands of northwestern South America from Venezuela to Bolivia.