SLEEK in a Sentence
Learn SLEEK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
30 example sentences for SLEEK, such as:
1. She wore a sleek little black dress.
2. Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle.
3. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.
4. She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them.
5. The group did invest in sleek Apple computers and other technology to help them compete against larger ad agencies.
2. Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle.
3. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.
4. She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them.
5. The group did invest in sleek Apple computers and other technology to help them compete against larger ad agencies.
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Meanings and Examples of SLEEK
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sleek
a. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
a. well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.
2 And somewhere the hills of Georgia were blue with Yankees, well-fed Yankees on sleek corn-stuffed horses.
3 The shells, with their brass caps and sleek green bodies and hieroglyphics on the wads, were cool and comfortably heavy in her hands.
4 The mud roads of a few days ago are powdery dust and the puddles beside them have hardened into lozenges of black sleek earth like cracked patent leather.
5 But the wheat and grass were sleek velvet under the sunset; the prairie clouds were tawny gold; and she swung happily into Main Street.
6 But she put her arm about his waist, her sleek head by his chest; she tugged at him; she clicked her tongue in imitation of Kennicott's cheerful noises.
7 Yet he was vain of his new turn-down collars and sleek ties; he often spoke of the "sloppy dressing" of Dr. McGanum; and he laughed at old men who wore detachable cuffs or Gladstone collars.
8 In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods.
9 She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.
10 She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them.
11 Human property is high in the market; and is, therefore, well fed, well cleaned, tended, and looked after, that it may come to sale sleek, and strong, and shining.
12 "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
13 The cows had been let out into their paddock, and their smooth sides were already shining with their new, sleek, spring coats; they basked in the sunshine and lowed to go to the meadow.
14 At the steps there stood a trap tightly covered with iron and leather, with a sleek horse tightly harnessed with broad collar-straps.
15 Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle.
Example Sentence:
1 The group did invest in sleek Apple computers and other technology to help them compete against larger ad agencies.
2 I think the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.
3 She wore a sleek little black dress.