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The drinks come in winsome bottles or sleek cans and have ridiculous flavors like watermelon-dandelion or rosehip-jacaranda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

“Holy fish,” I said, eyeing the seals with their sleek heads and black noses.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

That the smell and dirtiness of cigarettes would vanish into a cleaner, sleeker technological future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

But that appears to be changing with the likes of Optimus and sleeker droids which edge us closer to living in an uncanny valley.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

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

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

It was a Lockheed Sirius plane and at that time a ship which was taking everybody’s eyes as the latest and sleekest thing yet developed by the engineers.

From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

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 Smith, Alexander

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 Norton, Charles Eliot

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 De la Mare, Walter

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 Bell, William

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

He's better looking than your Uncle George was before he went to town and married a Lenox and got sleeked up.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

He had a kindly blue eye, a merry thick-lipped mouth, and blonde hair sleeked back across his crown, one lock, detached from the rest, falling over his forehead.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

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 Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian

"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 Mee, Arthur

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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 Louderback, Walt

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 Morris, William