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Example sentences for "sleek"

Lexicographically close words:
sledgehammer; sledges; sledging; sleds; slee; sleeked; sleekness; sleen; sleep; sleepe
  1. The session let her go her way; her son meantime stood passing an apologetic hand over his sleek hair, and making deprecatory motions to the minister, when he thought that his mother was not looking in his direction.

  2. Frizzled and coiffe, not a hair was out of order, not a speck lodged on the sleek surface of the blue coat, not a wrinkle crumpled the snowy vest, with its under-relief of delicate pink.

  3. With a convulsive movement she flung over in the bed and lay almost prone, her face snuggled into bare arms whose pure lustre lent fire to the crimson that glowed in a lunette of cheek, the one ear visible, even in her neck's sleek loveliness.

  4. In my anguish I have spent whole days on the cliffs, and, every minute, my thoughts have kept turning to your black galloper with his graceful gait and his sleek back, straight as an arrow.

  5. And I could hear him patting his galloper's sleek neck with his hand, as he called him various fond names.

  6. It was Clarissa della Rocca, Nino's married sister, tall, trim, and sleek in magnificent clothes.

  7. He bent his sleek black head over Nancy's hand and kissed it.

  8. Her headdress, very simple, decorated with gray ribbons, allowed her fair sleek hair to be seen arranged in broad bands.

  9. Squealing and chirping with rage, with his soft fur fluffed up all over his sleek body, he came out into the sunlight.

  10. The traveler coming from the south finds a pleasant relief in this wide fertile plain with its farmhouses and villages and its green fields dotted with sleek domestic animals.

  11. But for all this the country lacks the trim, parklike beauty of England and the sleek prosperity and bright color of France.

  12. At last the little Mice stayed away also; and the Tree sighed: "After all, it was very pleasant when the sleek little Mice sat round me and listened to what I told them.

  13. Over her shoulder I had a view of Andrew's sleek black poll and brown neck, and an impression of fluffy hair, and a slight and shapely back in a Norfolk jacket.

  14. She nestled her sleek head on his shoulder, telling him that she believed every word he said.

  15. The other portrait, painted with the sleek convention of that earlier epoch, was of a woman in a ball-dress.

  16. Her torn red blouse and untidy hair marked her out from the sleek and social group.

  17. She looked down at St. George's sleek back and felt horribly afraid.

  18. Her long ruddy curls were sleek and round, and Susan had let her put on her best hat, out of compliment to the manse.

  19. The train was decorated in a sleek contrast of silver and brown.

  20. She was dressed in sleek brown traveling clothes.

  21. Burman, the lordly through rate clerk, lowered his sleek face behind his books and snickered.

  22. See how the asses which they used to ride They have unsaddled, and sleek mules bestride!

  23. The sleek little stenographer glanced up at T.

  24. Mrs. McChesney was busily dictating to a sleek little stenographer.

  25. Buck's eyes had followed the sheaf of signed correspondence, and the well-filled pad of more recent dictation which the sleek little stenographer had carried away with her.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleek" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.