Example Sentences

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Serval and Sequoia celebrated the $1 billion fundraising milestone in a slickly produced, podcast-style video.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

It claims to be "not your average church", and its student-focused Instagram features slickly edited testimonies from young faces, along with vlogs and vox-pop interviews near university campuses.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

The ball was moved slickly right and Reece crossed the whitewash for a fine try.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

This slickly cryptic, immaculately performed 2½-hour set covered the whole of his era-defining catalog.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

There had to be at least thirty massive sculptures of running, leaping beasts, their flanks gleaming slickly in the silvery light, jaws open, their slowly melting muzzles dripping occasionally onto the crowd below.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo