sleeked

past tense of sleek

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleeked
Verb
  • Tteokbokki, for the uninitiated, is a dish of chewy, cylindrical rice cakes (tteok) that are typically slicked with a spicy savory-sweet sauce.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • With his brow perennially furrowed and hair slicked with sweat, Riley has the exact look and bearing of a suavely addled wrong-man figure from British thrillers of yore — and thus makes a suitably bemused proxy for the viewers in this wasteland of mounting chaos and absurdity.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Sojos Vintage Oversized Square Sunglasses Oversized square sunglasses are everywhere in Portugal, giving the bold-but-polished look that defines the Portuguese Girl aesthetic.
    Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Social media and dating feeds are polished to perfection, with filters helping us smoothen out flaws.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Doctors sawed off part of the bone, smoothed and flattened the rest and closed the wound with skin and soft tissue.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Card networks and domestic wallet apps have smoothed many edges, yet many of those wallets still use the same traditional systems.
    Alvin Kan, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Here, Roald Dahl’s classic 1970 children’s book of the same name becomes a deeply charming (and incredibly star-studded) stop-motion adventure, bathed from top to toe in the reds, golds, and burnished oranges of fall.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The incredible landscape is blanketed by deciduous forests, which are burnished with color in autumn.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Freeland agreed with Doyle that the negative coverage has rubbed some players the wrong way.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Vähäsarja vigorously rubbed some cups on Landers’s back—cupping creates a vacuum and stimulates blood flow—and turned the whole thing bright pink.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some people take all the components off the frame, strip off all the decals, then get the whole thing sanded and powder-coated with a fresh coat of paint.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Use in anti-counterfeiting measures In this new study, researchers placed a liquid crystal solution between two pieces of glass coated with dye molecules.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Posing next to Colman Domingo and Salma Hayek Pinault (who wore an elegant black Balenciaga suit dress), Moore’s glitzy look shone.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In recent years, retail real estate has particularly shone, as the sector is the only CRE type for which aggregate vacancy has declined since 2019.
    Andrew DeNardo, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a period where everything in Destiny 2 needs to be buffed, Bungie is relying much more heavily on nerfs.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Sleeked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleeked. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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