sleek
adjective
smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
sleeking
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present participleof sleek.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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"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
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
The rest of the travellers sat basking in the sunshine all that day, dressing their sores and bruises, dusting themselves, and sleeking out their matted hair.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
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 Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Julian Hawthorne
It began sleeking its long, yellow hair, which fell over its shoulders; its eyes were not turned towards me, but to the door; it seemed listening, watching, waiting.
From Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
