The wet road was shining sleekly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a sleek sports car. ,a sleek confidence man. From Dictionary.com.
His red hair hung sleekly straight to his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
As I stroked the beast's ears, the man smiled sleekly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
The quills laid back sleekly, and the strange eyes blinked. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
His reddish hair gleamed sleekly in the low-slanting sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Where Motown was sleekly urbane, Stax was explosive and unpolished. From Wordnik.com. [Papa's Got A Brand-Old Bag] Reference
Man-ley was frowning, his sleekly handsome face distinctly unhappy. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
Her sleekly scaled body afforded no purchase to his scrabbling hands. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
The place is six years old, cubical, landscaped and sleekly efficient. From Wordnik.com. [You Live Once]
The hair on the cat's back gradually settled down sleekly along his spine. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Rebels]
A sleekly produced video about hope and America played on the jumbo screen. From Wordnik.com. [Dateline Chicago: The Very End of the Obama Campaign] Reference
She was panting, her body sleekly wet with sweat, her face drawn and haggard. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
The cars moved northward at a steady clip, a sleekly moving ribbon of lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Ice]
They arrived on mopeds, hair pulled sleekly back under chic black army berets. From Wordnik.com. [Why No Gi Giovannas?] Reference
Architeam 4's "" Living Boxes '' are sleekly designed houses with modular walls. From Wordnik.com. [Mobile Homes] Reference
Most were sleekly designed, and some strapped onto the user's arm for steadiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fearful Summons]
Her hair was drawn sleekly back into her nape, revealing the delicacy of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers Touch]
His long black hair, growing rank from a muddy skin, was sleekly put behind his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
At rest, he had been sleekly beautiful; now he was savagely, threateningly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Can Be Fun]
'I think another week's detentions would do you some good, Mr Potter,' said Umbridge sleekly. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
He pulled his finsuit sleekly against him before carefully unfurling its fins to cup the air. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Their grotesque heads, bobbing and weaving on lengthy necks, their bodies, were sleekly scaled. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Smooth, compact, sleekly black, satisfyingly heavy, he always thought of it as his light-sabre. From Wordnik.com. [Quite Ugly One Morning]
And objects like Jean Theobald's silver tea service were streamlined as sleekly as a skyscraper. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
Last week Dell became the latest PC maker to introduce a sleekly designed, Net-oriented computer. From Wordnik.com. [Now, Dell Goes For The Ilook] Reference
After getting pass the sleekly designed immigration area I headed towards the baggage carrousels. From Wordnik.com. [A trip to Caracas, Venezuela] Reference
If a drowned rat looks sleekly wretched, Jacko looked ten times worse when taken out of the water. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
We went down to find three gentle-people, sleekly dressed, holding a religious service in our kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
Montreal recently launched its own program with sleekly designed bikes and solar-powered bike stations. From Wordnik.com. [France to Introduce Electric Car-Sharing Program] Reference
Entenza was quite evidently very much worked up over something; Dixon looked sleekly impassive as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Her lips were bloodless, the dark hair was plastered sleekly to her skull, and her cinnamon skin was pallid. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Both of them, thought the astonished Spartacus, looked like sleekly successful merchants-pallid, plump, finicky. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
She was well liked and socially connected, hosting dinner parties in her sleekly decorated Beekman Place apartment. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil and W.W.D.] Reference
The screenplay is sleekly efficient: we see Kirk and Spock as alienated kids and quickly sparring at Starfleet Academy. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Is There Finally Some Oscar Hope for Star Trek?"] Reference
His mother, in one of the most fashionable versions of the season's foulards, sleekly corseted and coifed, was sitting less than. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
The helpful Earthman was not tall, he was dark and chiselfaced and sleekly pomaded, dapper in blue pajamas with a red zig-zag, a. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
David hurried them around the bend in the sleekly carpeted corridor and touched the bell on the right of the first door they came to. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
When the Chevrolet Malibu gets sleekly redesigned for 2008, the frumpy-but-practical hatchback/wagon Malibu Maxx is also getting the axe. From Wordnik.com. [The wagon Legacy ends] Reference
Muji CD Player Muji From Japan's purveyor of sleekly designed household goods comes this CD player that hangs on the wall like a painting. From Wordnik.com. [Tip Sheet] Reference
They had hardly passed the prison before three horses, sleekly curried, and with ribbons tied to their manes and tails, were led past them. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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