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As in so many family dwellings, Hilton says the kitchen is the heart of the home, with its premium appliances, sleek custom cabinetry and a massive dining and prep island.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, some of his former talents have gone on to start sleek independent ventures, like Cooper and her media lifestyle brand Unwell, which has acquired podcasts to produce alongside the hit “Call Her Daddy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Construction on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a sleek, 20-story building designed by ZGF Architects, finished in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The Starfire Kylie Edition Meta Glasses are a more sleek design than the rest of the line, and start at $399.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

But her mind wasn’t on the beauty of the scenery or the impressiveness of the sleek train moving through it.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

At the lone, crunchy macrobiotic restaurant that continues to exist, stubbornly, as the city grows sleeker and more expensive around it.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Ms Tekwani aims to design and launch products that are sleeker while preserving core Art Deco principles.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

Even the sleekest shows require constant maintenance under the hood.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015

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 Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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 De la Mare, Walter

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

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

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

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

Vivie had once derided him for trying to woo his frontal hair into a flattened curl with much pomade ... he now only sleeked his curly hair with water.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

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

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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

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

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