Example sentences for: lithe

How can you use “lithe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I've never seen a more vivid distillation of rock's allure than the scene in which he reverently opens the new Brian Slade album--its centerfold image is a lithe, naked, green-tinged Maxwell Demon--slips the vinyl out of its paper jacket and, after gingerly setting the LP on the turntable, props a chair under the doorknob to keep the uncomprehending world at bay.

  • My objection to the form of the reference is that its wording suggests, “there is more information about the etymology of lento to be found under lithe ,” but that does not actually turn out to be the case: all the user has learned is that lento and lithe are (or might be) cognates.

  • This proved that no middle-aged woman should stand next to a tall, lithe, blond, virtually naked actress.

  • The ingenue, the straight man, she is lithe and funny in her own right.

  • In the event, why not just say “cogn: lithe ” under lento and the reverse under lithe ? (This latter piece of information is unaccountably lacking.)


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