Sentence examples for willowy from inspiring English sources

These days he may be one of the last of the mohicans: a rumpled working-class performer in an industry increasingly dominated by willowy young Etonians.

The homecoming of the willowy, teetotal, churchgoing patriot was marked by a tickertape parade in New York, with 100,000 people filling the streets and cheering.

Ms Polese is a willowy Californian from Berkeley who likes jazz-dancing.

Whether it is a svelte and willowy Joan Collins in "Private Lives" or "Damn Yankees" star Jerry Lewis, arms akimbo and eyebrows reaching for the sky, the drawings find something essential in the ephemera that is live performance.

There are a large number of willowy young women who all seem to be named Poppy or after some other plant.

He was five-foot-four on a good day, easily dwarfed by bosses, army sergeants, aristocrats or rivals for the willowy girls who strolled into his life.

Her long, willowy body was rented out, to become the fantasy possession of thousands of devoted men.

In a garish real-life drama, a billionaire Egyptian property mogul, Hisham Talaat Mustafa, has been charged with hiring a hit man to kill a willowy Lebanese starlet, Suzanne Tamim, who was found in July, in a posh flat in Dubai, with her throat slit.

She was tall, willowy, beautiful.

Lianliu, a shrub with long willowy branches, is used for basket weaving, while other plants are woven into thatch mattings and sunshades.

Its shining, brilliant green, willowy, wavy-edged leaves hang from pendant branches that almost clasp the tall, straight trunk.