Example sentences for: willowy

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

  • The willowy Thurman looks great in her outfits, but it's ever more apparent that she isn't much of an actress--at least, not a trained one--and her attempts at insouciance are embarrassingly arch.

  • I imagine that he was powerfully moved by Daryl Hannah's punky, kick-boxing android in Blade Runner as well as her lissome, childlike mermaid in Splash ; he has created a role for the Ukrainian-born model Jovovich, who has an urchin's face atop a willowy body, that's a strange fusion of both.

  • We watch him having the time of his life, but there's no question of his ever fitting in with Dickie, his willowy girlfriend Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow), or even their fat, to-the-manner-born pal Freddie Miles (a hilarious Philip Seymour Hoffman)--he's too tense, too hungry, too incomplete.

  • Highlights include an Indian-style Shaka triad; the Yumechigae (“Dream Changing”) Kannon, said to transform its worshippers’ nightmares into pleasant dreams; and the Kudara Kannon, a graceful, willowy statue named after a region in Korea, whose designer and creator was almost certainly Korean.

  • Anyway, it's hard to tsk-tsk the man when his chief motivation is bedding Embeth Davidtz (as Mallory Doss), a dark-eyed, neurasthenic enigma with the South's most willowy gams.


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