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as in graceful
moving easily
the lissome actress's dance training is apparent in the way she moves on stage
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as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
rattan is such a lissome material that it can be used for all manner of furniture and baskets
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Recent Examples of lissome
The lissome little murder mystery retails for $15 and totals 100 pages.
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Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
Jack collected lissome locks of women’s pubic hair.
—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
The 5000 has one of the most lissome combinations of ride and handling of any car on the road; the 4000, however, is less smooth and less graceful.
—Steve Smith, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
Coming on the heels of a few years of public disintegration, he’d been humbled, or wished to appear that way: a handed-the-world boy forced to disavow the person fame had turned him into, singing lissome songs of apology.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
One of my more luminous memories of that odd year, 1974, was a dance performed in Central Park in New York by three long and lissome non-pregnant maidens in white gauze gym suits.
—Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
Jack collected lissome locks of women’s pubic hair.
—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
The 5000 has one of the most lissome combinations of ride and handling of any car on the road; the 4000, however, is less smooth and less graceful.
—Steve Smith, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
Coming on the heels of a few years of public disintegration, he’d been humbled, or wished to appear that way: a handed-the-world boy forced to disavow the person fame had turned him into, singing lissome songs of apology.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
One of my more luminous memories of that odd year, 1974, was a dance performed in Central Park in New York by three long and lissome non-pregnant maidens in white gauze gym suits.
—Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
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The graceful oscillations of manta fins propagate waves that move outward from the ray’s body and create vortices that spiral, pushing water backward and producing forward thrust.Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
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Chakrabarti says Singh was one of India's most graceful prime ministers.Sushmita Pathak, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
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Plan for marketing and future growth, but keep things flexible to stay open to new opportunities.Sho Dewan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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To address this challenge, Chinese defense experts have proposed that China’s military culture must become comfortable with decentralized and flexible operations.Sam Bresnick, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2024
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Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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But in this room, influencers clamor for a picture with the willowy redhead.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
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Two ultra-limber actors — Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers — in garish body makeup (and dance shoes) merge limbs and psyches for an electric demonstration of poetry in motion.Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
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For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.Forrest Brown, CNN, 21 June 2022
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By aligning with these groups, Iran could build a network of loyalist forces and proxies to sustain its influence in Syria even in the absence of a pliant ruling regime.Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
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Starchy potato and lots of powdered sugar come together to form a pliant dough that's rolled up with sugary peanut butter.Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
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The Japanese conductor amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
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All of them are lithe, with a classic shark profile, and hunt small fish like mullet.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024
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And an image of a woman named Linda Jackson washing her hair in a plastic bin on the Navajo Nation, the striking mountains of Monument Valley piercing the background, was how Elliot Ross shed light on what life is like in America’s water inequality capital.TIME Photo Department, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Make sure heat vents are pointed away from any plastic storage bins or cheap plastic toys.Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2024
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Available in 19 vibrant shades, these matching luggage tags are constructed with a supple vegan leather material and sleek, adjustable metal hardware buckles.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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The new ‘It’ bag has been spotted on Bella Hadid numerous times: the Brooklyn 39 in both smooth black leather and supple cedar suede.Erin Lassner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Lissome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lissome. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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