Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sleek
IPA transcription: [sl'ik]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: slick, sleek
    Meaning: make slick or smooth
Usage examples
  • His feet touched and slipped upon its horrible sleek flanks.
  • 'You may call it my humble home'--it was Blenkiron's sleek voice that spoke.
  • The sanctimonious hypocrite, the sleek speculator, and others whom he has probably encountered in life are done "to the queen's taste."
  • "I must attend to my own master's interests, and eat all that is given me, and be sleek and fat as I can, and go no faster than I need."
  • So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.
  • So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.
  • He soon learned that if Kit knew anything about it he would not tell, so he and his lawyer (a sleek, oily rascal named Brass) made many plans for finding them.
  • When she refused to swallow another particle, he perched on a twig close by the nest many times in a day; and with sleek feathers and lowered crest, gazed at her in silent worshipful adoration.
  • The black fox skin a shadow cast from the roof nigh to the floor; And sleek it seemed and soft it gleamed, and the woman stroked it o'er; And the man stood by with a brooding eye, and gnashed his teeth and swore.
  • Let him remember only kindness of us, and so we turn a foe into a friend," said Parson Bain, stroking the sleek, dark head, that always bowed before him, with a docile reverence shown to no other living creature.