sleek

President Reagan had just been elected, consumerism was back in vogue and a new wave of Hollywood films memorialized “a sleek city defined by these noirish neon nights and these bright, intense, colorful days.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Her gonzo, anti-woke update of Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate” is a tigress—beautiful, powerful, sleek, and insatiably carnivorous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But then Florida homeschoolers tried to enroll, so Helton transformed the business to also offer in-person teaching two days a week for homeschool students out of a sleek coworking space.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

The sleek, futuristic-looking, white and yellow vehicle boasts solar panels on the roof that power its engine but also medical devices from x-ray machines to defibrillators.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

One moment it was there, sleek and silver, gliding through the water.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

South Korean technology giant Samsung unveiled new, sleeker smartphone models Wednesday priced more than previous models as artificial intelligence raises component costs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

At a recent event, Meta unveiled a pair of sleeker, oval-shaped glasses designed in collaboration with Jenner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

They are sleeker, have longer-lasting batteries and are increasingly screenless.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Childs’ exalted use of dance and Kosky’s dazzling theatrical imagination may have moved us into a sleeker, more sophisticated and paradisal Glassian realm, but the sheer passion McDermott and Stasevska bring continues its own attraction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Looking round the little group that gathered on the grass, Hazel saw that all of them—even Holly—were looking stronger, sleeker and in better shape than when they had first come to the down.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

John Dowie was described in accounts as "the sleekest and kindest of landlords".

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Microsoft is not the first manufacturer to deploy such a design, but the Surface Laptop Studio is certainly the sleekest laptop yet with it.

From The Verge ● Oct. 8, 2021

Browning whipped up this year's edition of the annual tour of figure skating and ice-dancing champs into one of the sleekest, smoothest shows in years for the franchise.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2012

Rapping well, singing even better and erasing distinctions between the two, Drake made the sleekest, most self-aware pop album of the year.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2011

With his round face and stout frame you might have taken him for one of the sleekest of Anglican divines. 

From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

A final finishing dollop of aioli swirled into the al dente rice sleeks it with satiny richness.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

Through the grass and the flowers came the evil trail, turning from time to time its head to its back, licking like a beast that sleeks itself.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton

His eye burns deep, his tail is arched,   And streams upon the shadowy air, The daylight sleeks his jetty flanks,       His mistress' hair.

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. by Walter De la Mare

The true adjective clause is “sleeking ... locks” = with which she sleeks, etc.; and the true participial clause is “she sits ... rocks” = seated on ... rocks.

From Milton's Comus by William Bell

Vanity is to a man what the oily secretion is to a bird, with which it sleeks and adjusts the plumage ruffled by whatever causes.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

Takisha Sturdivant-Drew sleeked Kerry Washington’s coat; and Amy Adams, Naomi Campbell, and Heidi Klum, who was coiffed by Andy Lecompte, joined her with forays into flattening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2017

He sleeked his hair, put on spats, became meticulous about his clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

From western ranges, where the feed is scanty, cattle are moving by the hungry thousands to corn-rich Missouri, Iowa and eastern Kansas, there to be stuffed and sleeked for market.

From Time Magazine Archive

They returned after a few moments, their faces shining, their hair wetted and sleeked down.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

How they sleeked and flattened their plumage, and with half-open beaks and sparkling eyes, hopped closer and closer as if charmed.

From The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter

But the Midden was now rocking and floating on the shadowy water, her bright hair sleeking the stream behind her.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

The rest of the travellers sat basking in the sunshine all that day, dressing their sores and bruises, dusting themselves, and sleeking out their matted hair.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

It began sleeking its long yellow hair, which fell over its shoulders; its eyes were not turned toward me, but to the door; it seemed listening, watching, waiting.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Walt Louderback

At the risk of her life she dragged him across to the entrance, and sat desolately crumbling away between her fingers such feathers as were singed upon him, and sleeking his long gasping neck.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

There he stood at the door sleeking his hair with old country habit, and every now and then stealing a glance round at the splendour of the apartment.

From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell