Sample Sentences for
lithe
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    He lounged on his throne of used human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther.  (source)
    lithe = (like one who could) move and bend with ease
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    Not long after, however, a guy named Mike, an easygoing, humorous six-foot-eight guy who had always encouraged me to get off the street, had an argument on the Corner with his girlfriend Mustang, a fine, lithe black woman with...  (source)
    lithe = thin with flexibility and grace of movement
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    She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems on her neck and in her dark hair.  (source)
    lithe = graceful and flexible (moving and bending with ease)
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    He was a man about forty with graying hair and moustache, lithe and trim.  (source)
    lithe = thin with flexibility and grace of movement
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    to my legs, when he lunged for the window, threw it open, and ducked lithely out.†  (source)
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    Even from the rear Nel could tell that it was Sula and that she was smiling; that something deep down in that litheness was amused.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Lither that, or that particular cab driver was an out-and-out-louse.†  (source)
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    She was tall, thin, giving her a fragile, lithesome look as though molded wild by the wind.†  (source)
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    Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    We were similar in build, thin and lithe, with somewhat spindly arms and legs.  (source)
    lithe = thin and flexible
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    She moved toward him lithely, soundlessly in her bare feet, and her face was full of wonder.†  (source)
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    He's tired of their fangs, their litheness, their firm but ripe half-a-grapefruit breasts, their gluttony.†  (source)
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    She lost flesh despite increase of appetite; she lost her pallor for a complexion of gold-brown she knew her Eastern friends would admire; she wore out the blisters and aches and pains; she found herself growing firmer of muscle, lither of line, deeper of chest.†  (source)
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