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Inside, soaring ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows help flood the open-concept interiors with natural light, while sleek finishes lend the home a contemporary feel.

From MarketWatch ● 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

The course is located on Sentosa, an islet off the coast of Singapore that acts as a playground for billionaires, with multimillion-dollar homes and a sleek marina hosting superyachts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Her hair is pulled back in a sleek, blonde ponytail.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

“Do nothing for a while. the machine needs a update. the competiion is sleeker and better,” he counseled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 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

Having spent the better part of 30 years in Japan, I’m ever more impressed by how profoundly primal beliefs and atavistic rites underlie even the sleekest Harajuku fashions.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017

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 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

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

Sssuri, his fur sleeked tight to his body, waded ashore, shook himself free of excess water, and turned immediately to study the wall of the cliff which guarded the interior of the island.

From Star Born by Andre Norton

She was a little, slender brunette, with black eyes and burnished hair parted on one side and sleeked down over her head.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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

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

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

"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

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