Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

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 Norton, Charles Eliot

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 Bell, William

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 De la Mare, Walter

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 Smith, Alexander