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The Canadian superstar took to the runway at the end of L'Oreal's annual show, emerging in a sleek black gown to rapturous applause at one of the fashion calendar's most glamorous openings.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The sleek, white kitchen has since been thoroughly modernized, with marble countertops and a six-burner cooktop.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

A creature descends to Earth from a sleek spacecraft, still humanoid but far removed from its ancestor species Homo sapiens sapiens.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Inevitably, given the origins of the Lucas wealth, they have been compared to the sleek contoured spaceships of his “Star Wars” movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Bunny nodded at the cup of sleek black pens that sat on Julian’s desk.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx of newer, sleeker businesses with scrawled cursive logos and $7 drinks.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

Also: The latest Oura and Fitbit wearables are smarter and sleeker than ever — but do they keep you healthy?

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

The vessels have a deeper draught - the amount of hull below the waterline - than most CalMac ships, allowing for a sleeker, more fuel efficient shape.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 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

That’s because they’re usually looking for the sleekest, coolest, most graphically stunning pieces, and well, that’s just not my priority.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

Amazon has designed the sleekest, most efficient consumer gratification interface ever devised: just a click on a screen or a command to Alexa and an item arrives.

From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2019

Qataris were behind the Shard, the Renzo Piano-designed tower that is London’s sleekest skyscraper.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2017

With great surprise, he found his bed unoccupied; the sheets and pillows in the sleekest rest.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The feathers of the crown are erected, but those of the body are sleeked.

From Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon by Jon C. Barlow

The snowy night lay dim without, I heard the Waits their sweet song sing; The window smouldered keen with frost; Yet still she twisted, sleeked and tossed     Her beauteous hair about.

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

Anointed with the sleeking oil there strive our fellows stripped In wrestling game of fatherland: it joys us to have slipped By such a host of Argive towns amidmost of the foe.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris

"Ye've just guessed it," answered Thomas, sleeking down his front hair with his fingers in a sober way.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

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

From Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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

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