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One of them, 31-year-old Pang Kai, who is part of the research and development team, pushes the sleek skeleton across the room.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Safety concerns have risen in China recently over sleek car designs that are prone to losing operability in the event of a crash.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

But it raises a new problem: If everything is flat and sleek and simple, it all looks the same once again.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Where Sal, the restaurant, is colorful and eclectic, JNcQUOI Beach Club is outfitted in a sleek palette of navy, natural wood and cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

A snow leopard padded out of the brush, sleek and covered with speckled smoky-gray fur.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

Though she rose from the sea There were stains upon her whiteness; All earth's waters had not sleeked her clean.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

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 Julian Hawthorne

"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

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

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

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