How to Use willowy in a Sentence

willowy

adjective

• Catching a fish the size of a small person with a willowy fly rod and a fly the size of your thumb is no easy matter.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• Next door, a woman in her 70s or 80s ironed in full view of the neighborhood, her willowy body framed by the open doorway of her laundry room.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• View Photos The old Golf was not notably willowy, but Volkswagen says the new one is 20-percent more rigid.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 27 July 2023
• Yellow wild flowers and a footpath surrounded by coastal scrub led me to the edge of the sea, where waves smacked on the rocks, leaving only a trace of willowy foam.
  — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2021
• Naomi, a willowy dancer, was on stage draped in red and black lingerie, with high-heeled shoes decorated in fringe.
  — NOLA.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• And why do all the token older models have willowy bodies and streaming locks?!
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• And Mara is perfectly cast as the girl who's been left behind; even the willowy curve of her neck suggests a quiet thoughtfulness.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2017
• At brunch, the tenderloin anchored a steak frites plate dressed with a willowy Parmesan crisp, handcut fries and broiled tomato.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• White nylon string hanging through the net, along with green fiber optics that run through branches on the grid, create the willowy effect overhead.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Kuriya’s gyoza dumplings have the same willowy cornstarch halo as Kimura’s.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 3 July 2019
• Cameron Brink, Stanford’s willowy 6-4 freshman forward, had 88 of them.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
• Often meat is served over a steamed vegetable; WangJia instead merges the pork into a trio with chewy-soft squid and willowy, threadlike tea tree mushrooms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• Susan Beresford is of course the love interest: a willowy, auburn-haired heiress whose hauteur and needling humor mask a tender heart.
  — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• The pastel hues and willowy figures in her works lend them a feminine aesthetic.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• But Jorge, a willowy 23-year-old, utilized a 95 mph fastball to work into the sixth inning, allowing three runs in five-plus innings.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 1 July 2017
• There's no tidy resolution here, no willowy woman on the book jacket holding the waistband of her old pants an arm's reach from her new body.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 24 June 2017
• Foltz is a willowy 46 years old, soft-spoken, with a salty nerdiness that perhaps only an oceanographer can achieve.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• His willowy frame took nine bullets from police pistols.
  — Nikita Stewart and Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Stettheimer peopled her pictures with willowy figures—women in slinky gowns and men in close-fitting suits.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• No average-size woman will ever look as good in the clothes as a beautiful, young, willowy model.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon.
  — Diarlei Rodrigues and Diane Jeantet, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2023
• The glass bottle is as lean and willowy as a model; the carbonation is confident, intense.
  — Alex McElroy, Bon Appétit, 5 Aug. 2021
• With her pulse-quickening visage, tantalizing purr of a voice, and willowy physique toned by boxing and judo, Ms. Blackman gained a foothold in British films in the late 1940s.
  — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• Out of a gondola steps a willowy beauty wearing a tomato-red lace gown with bold pink appliqué carnations, her raven hair pulled back in a low chignon.
  — Kate Betts, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2016
• Out of a gondola steps a willowy beauty wearing a tomato-red lace gown with bold pink appliqué carnations, her raven hair pulled back in a low chignon.
  — Kate Betts, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2016
• One is Gloria Steinem, the beautiful, willowy avatar of a movement that had often been stereotyped as a collective of misfits.
  — Michelle Dean, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• But as the snowboarders flipped in the air, performing gravity-defying tricks, many of the cameras were instead facing the stands, trained squarely on the willowy blonde in the red ski suit and Team USA beanie.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Tall and willowy, her blond hair gathered in a so ponytail this afternoon at a Manhattan hotel, Pike is more approachable than Marie was at first.
  — Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
• Taras himself had already lost more than twenty pounds in less than two months under siege, a conspicuous drop from an already willowy frame.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• With a ravenous rock trio at her back, willowy singer Arrow de Wilde came on like a wild-eyed demon, and finished the set by dancing on the bar, leaping into the arms of a stranger, and parading out the back exit into the night.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024