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Example sentences for "lithely"

Lexicographically close words:
liters; lites; lith; litharge; lithe; litheness; lither; lithesome; lithia; lithic
  1. In fact, she had come to detest him thoroughly, and whenever he was announced she would rise like some beautiful, disgusted feline, which something has disturbed in her dim and favourite corner, and move lithely away to another room.

  2. She shrugged, still twisted lithely in her struggle to hook her waist.

  3. For a moment Marya continued to arrange her hair by the aid of the mantel mirror, then she turned very lithely and let her green gaze rest full on Palla's face.

  4. Clio, now a hardened spacehound, immune even to the horrible nausea of inertialessness, wriggled lithely in the curve of Costigan's arm and laughed up at him.

  5. While he jammed the two bags into an exactly-fitting space, she tossed the children into the front seat, slid lithely under the wheel, and started the engine.

  6. He uttered a low cry and would have seized her in his arms but, lithely evading him, she turned, stifling a sob, and darted away through the trees toward the house.

  7. Impulsively Naida threw her arms around his neck, coiling herself up lithely and characteristically beside him.

  8. Dulcie got up lithely and followed him on little jade-encrusted, naked feet.

  9. He turned and looked at the lithely speeding Arethusa.

  10. The Houri also looked at him, then, intoxicated by the soft spring evening, rolled lithely upon the new grass and lay there twitching her snowy tail and challenging the stars out of eyes that matched their brilliance.

  11. Hal threw out the suit-case, and lithely leaped to earth.

  12. He strode to the companionway, his feet sure on the swaying deck, his body lithely meeting every plunge, and slid back the hatch-cover.

  13. He sank lithely on one knee; she laughed deliciously, looking down at his masked face.

  14. She stooped lithely and recovered the weapon.

  15. Recklow sprang out; Tressa gave him one hand and stepped lithely to the sidewalk.

  16. He stood for a while, humped, hands in pockets, watching the other's strong body spring lithely to its task.

  17. He stood looking after her as she ran lithely up the path, and wondered why she could love them so much and him so little.

  18. And sitting on the wet grass in her thick fur coat she twisted herself so lithely about that there could no longer be any fear of obscure injuries.

  19. He remembered only one woman who ran as lithely as she did, one of the numerous "diving beauties" of the vaudeville stage.

  20. I might have you cast into a dungeon beneath this palace," she hissed at me, bending lithely forward and extending a jeweled forefinger.

  21. Supple and silent as a swimming otter, the girl slipped lithely through the chilled water, which washed his body to the nostrils and numbed his legs till he could scarcely move them.

  22. Here it grows in dense sods, like grasses, from forty to eighty feet high, bending all together to the breeze and whirling in eddying gusts more lithely than any other tree in the woods.

  23. The others, who were barefooted, made nothing of them, walking as easily and lithely as panthers on the jagged trail.

  24. She swam across the pool and turning lithely in the water curved out of sight beneath the surface of the vortex.

  25. Then, locking her ankles lithely as only a slim girl can, she opened her book, and was soon engrossed in the fortunes of Lovelace and Clarissa.

  26. She moved lithely across the room to where Blake stood.

  27. Leaning lithely over, she laid her cheek against that of her child, soft, rounded arms pressing her close.

  28. It lit: the dry bark curled, cracked, caught; the clear young flame climbed lithely through the shavings and twigs.

  29. He doubled lithely aside and sprang again, seeking to recover his former advantage.

  30. She stood lithely straight, and her furs fell back from a throat as smooth and slenderly rounded as Sally's.

  31. She was slim and lithely resilient of step.

  32. Clio, now a hardened space-flea, immune even to the horrible nausea of inertialessness, wriggled lithely in the curve of Costigan's arm and laughed up at him.

  33. The other man was small and lithely thin like a weasel.

  34. They whipped lithely in the air with a clear whistling sound.

  35. He stepped back two steps; as his attacker advanced, Alan drove a fist into his stomach and leaped lithely away again.

  36. Ignoring him, Alan started to walk ahead, but the robot skipped lithely around to block him.

  37. Kissing his hands, she sprang lithely up and ran down the corridor, to vanish through a heavy double door.

  38. Rising lithely she came to him, rose on tiptoe and flung her arms about his massive neck.

  39. Gordon circled lithely around the crippled blue monstrosity like a timber wolf circling a wounded moose.

  40. The Xoranian's powerful hands clutched at Gordon, but he leaped lithely backward out of their reach.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lithely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.