How to Use willowy in a Sentence

willowy

adjective
  • Nat wore a slinky blue dress, which suited her willowy frame.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The soft, willowy branches bear red flower spikes on the tips in warm months.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
  • The soft, willowy branches bear red flower spikes on the tips in warm months.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Joint was comfortable with Williams’s pace, and stronger than her willowy frame suggested.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • The pastel hues and willowy figures in her works lend them a feminine aesthetic.
    — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Kuriya’s gyoza dumplings have the same willowy cornstarch halo as Kimura’s.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 3 July 2019
  • 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
  • Her character, Priya, drawn with a willowy figure and bedroom eyes, is the mother of a new kid in town.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Or gawky characters, all angular bone structures and willowy limbs?
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The glass bottle is as lean and willowy as a model; the carbonation is confident, intense.
    — Alex McElroy, Bon Appétit, 5 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The untameable leaves and stems give the wreath a more willowy, natural feel that’s evocative of the wildflowers that start to bloom around this time of year, too.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Worry Dolls, two willowy women from London, play guitar and banjo and write topical songs and sensitive love songs.
    — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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, 1 July 2017

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