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Recent Examples of willowy But in this room, influencers clamor for a picture with the willowy redhead. Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024 Joan Vassos — willowy, blonde, and 61 years young — is surrounded by 12 senior men who are getting ready to show some skin. EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024 Michelle Troconis, the 49-year-old Venezuelan socialite who was convicted on Friday for conspiracy to commit murder, is tall, willowy, and as beautiful as a newscaster. Rich Cohen, airmail.news, 2 Mar. 2024 The willowy model kept at it after marrying and having two children. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for willowy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for willowy
Adjective
  • The sneakers are designed with a lightweight EVA midsole for flexible support and a rubber outsole that boosts durability.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If your schedule is flexible, look at departures on weekdays, especially early and mid-week.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • SACs produced from plastic waste showed excellent performance in breaking down diverse micropollutants in water and in boosting clean-energy technologies such as batteries and fuel cells.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The plastic container with seasoning was broken and soiled.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Look out for celebrities and wearers of floppy felt hats.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Oracle was born in the floppy-disk era; Larry Ellison made his first billion in 1992.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Raskob took his own leap into the political fray by bankrolling Smith and using the DNC to settle scores—with the help of a pliant press.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Willowy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/willowy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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