Sentence examples for sleek against from inspiring English sources

It also looks pretty to take the loose hair that escapes or is too short to include in the bun (If your hair is layered), and spiral curl it with a curling iron instead of fighting it to stay sleek against your head.

A former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mr. Bokaer relies on visual design as a starting point for his choreography; at times, it feels as if he were playing a game of chess that pits sleek bodies against minimalist structures.

The central dining room, once the rear courtyard of John D. Rockefeller's town house, enjoys lovely natural light, and a sleek waterfall against one wall supplies soothing white noise, but the room feels like a made-over elevator shaft or the atrium of a small-town mall, brightened up with contemporary Swedish art and hung with a silly-looking mobile of what looks like strung-together kites.

Let battle commence: swishing crinolines against sleek cocktail gowns, herbaceous borders against snowy Alpine peaks, gun battles against venomous gossip over the tea tables.

The holiday season is when all the action takes place in the video game business, and this year has already pitted Microsoft's Xbox 360 against Sony's PlayStation 3, and sleek new software against sequels like Halo 3.

Their interiors are lovely, setting sleek modern furniture against the fabric of their historic homes – heavy, elaborate doors and ceilings of mangrove and palm fronds.

Its set piece is a sleek credenza placed against the longest wall, with an extension table in front of it, occupying the center of the room.

Like a soft-hearted tortoise in a race against sleek hares, Cruttenden's routine employs adroit, inventive riffs on life in Enfield.

On Thursday members of the youth band marched through lobbies on the building's various levels, bouncing Vinko Globokar's clambering "Crocs en jambe" against sleek surfaces and angular niches.

The hindrance was Ronald Reagan, against whose sleek reading of speeches all subsequent Republican presidential candidates have been found wanting.

WITH a whoosh of water against its sleek, black hull and a thundering crack of wind-whipped sails above, USA 76 came about on San Francisco Bay.