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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

He still found it hard to believe that this ridiculous man could have created anything so sleek and powerful.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

With all the milk they were getting, the children began to grow larger and sleeker, and their skin shone with good health.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

These aren’t the sleekest wearables on the market, but they’re not a crime against fashion either.

From The Verge ● Jun. 17, 2022

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

The sleekest piece is Lorenzo Cardim’s wall-mounted array of curved, partly meshed wooden slices.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018

The honors of his ebon poll Were brighter than the sleekest mole; His bosom of the hue With which Aurora decks the skies, When piping winds shall soon arise To sweep away the dew.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

In every instance the body feathers of the swaying birds were sleeked.

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

How many a human being has sleeked the rich softness of my magnificent tiger skin, and then said, in perfect good faith, "How Toots enjoys being stroked!"

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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

"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

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

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

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