36 examples of effortless in sentences

I can keep my seat on most four-legged beasts, but my horsemanship is a clumsy, rough-and-ready affair, very different from the effortless grace of your true cavalier.

With a lithe, effortless grace he rose from his chair and faced me, and his smile, half amused, half tolerant, curved his lips again.

Betty Gordon was not an Oklahoma girl, though she rode with the effortless ease of a Westerner.

The other is bowed down, effortless, passive.

He only realised in those moments how much he had leaned upon her, how completely she seemed to have extended over him and his troubled life some sort of sheltering influence, to which he had succumbed with an effortless, an almost fatalistic impulse, finding there, at any rate, a refuge from the horrors of his empty days.

Distance is a small thing to a powerful motor eating up space with an effortless appetite, which deceives novice and expert alike.

Like a bird of the night the little canoe shot towards it, skimmed its darkness and then slipped, effortless, into shining silver space.

It seems the art of one who walked through the world of things endowed with the senses of a god, and able, with that perfection of effort that looks as if it were effortless, to fashion his experience into incorruptible song; whether it be the dance of flies round a byre at milking-time, or a forest-fire on the mountains at night.

Indeed, it was a curious phenomenon to observe how all these young minds, sprung from a stock of such ancient, unquestioning faith, had, so to say, been born "poisoned;" or, to state the matter less metaphorically, had all been born with instincts for the most pitiless and effortless reasoning on all subjects human and divine.

He presently returns with a narghileh, which we smoke by the effortless inhalation of the lungs.

an easy, effortless control of his ski.

Her easy, effortless smile passed across her face and in and out of her eyes.

" He slipped from his horse with an effortless ripple, untied a tawny little pony with a thick neck, a round body, and a mild, intelligent face, and led him to Sheila who mounted from her sack.

He had, too, something of the Arabian dignity in his bearing, and he walked with long, well-balanced steps, swiftly, but without haste, as the Arab walks barefooted in the sand, not even suspecting that weariness can ever come upon him; erect, proud, without self-consciousness, elastic; collected and ever ready, in his easy and effortless movement, for sudden and violent action.

Deep breathing, headnotes clear as a bell and effortless, as only three or four singers in Europe can produce them, without the slightest sense of strain or throatinesssuch are the songs of our most gifted denizens of the woods.

He sent the lightly built craft easily through the water with regular, effortless strokes.

She saw him now coming from the hotel, and she regarded him thoughtfully, a powerful figure swinging along with light, effortless steps.

Stella felt now a shyness of him, a little dread of him, less sureness of herself, as he swung out of the machine and took the house steps with that effortless lightness on his feet that she remembered so well.

Their inferences are for the most part effortless, though sometimes they will both be seen to pause until they have settled some point by wordless deliberation.

None the less the paintings are remarkable interpretations, investing Krishna with an air of effortless composure, and exalting his princely grace.

They seemed to enjoy to the full that delightful retired openness which an English park affords, and that easy effortless communion which only old companionship can give.

It was not that he was a perfect character, with a tranquil and effortless superiority, or with a high intellectual tenacity, or with an unruffled serenity.

The choir were practicing, and suddenly there rose a boy's voice, pure, effortless, and clear....

It simply ran on and on, smoothly, sweeping through transition after transition, soaring and falling in the most effortless manner.

Verses, remarkable for rhyme and rhythm both, when repeated to him a few times with scanning emphasis, took root in that fertile brain which piled his compact forehead so powerfully above his piercing, deep-set eyes, and fell from his infant lips in silvery melody as effortless and spontaneous as the trickling of water or the singing of birds in the trees.

36 examples of  effortless  in sentences