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Mackie, the fashion designer who died Monday at 87 years old, had taken inspiration from Cher’s wardrobe, sheathing Barbie in a sleek, gold-sequined gown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“The main living spaces revolve around a dramatic fireplace and connect fluidly to a generous dining area with a sleek wet bar—every detail engineered for both aesthetic impact and effortless use,” the description continued.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

He appreciated the efficiency and sleek forms of luxury liners, which were as modern as the most functional contemporary building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The minimalist design gives vehicles a "sleek look and reduces wind drag" but can be confusing to use, car industry analyst Stephen Dyer from consultancy AlixPartners told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

She guides us into a quiet office with sleek wooden walls, gigantic computer monitors embedded within the walls, and a thick obsidian desk in the middle of the room.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Starting next week, the Surge is going to look different: sleeker and fresher but still phenomenally trenchant.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 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

Read: The latest Oura and Fitbit wearables are smarter and sleeker than ever — but do they keep you healthy?

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

Today, tech giants have tried to make AI and smart glasses more wearable by partnering with designer eyewear brands - and can pack more power and features into smaller, sleeker frames.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 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

Akseizer Design Group consulted on the interior design, which is flexible enough to accommodate grandmother’s heirlooms or the sleekest contemporary pieces.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

Amazon has designed the sleekest, most efficient consumer gratification interface ever devised: just a click on a screen or a command to Alexa and an item arrives.

From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2019

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

The average Traftonite's the sleekest, pertiest chap on earth.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

A final finishing dollop of aioli swirled into the al dente rice sleeks it with satiny richness.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

Did you notice that he was very clean, and that his hair was sleeked down with brilliantine?

From Penny Plain by O. Douglas

He's an awful stylish chap, with blond hair sleeked down on his skull, and glasses set pert on the bridge of his nose.

From The Black Eagle Mystery by Geraldine Bonner

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 toward me, but to the door; it seemed listening, watching, waiting.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Walt Louderback

"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

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

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