Sentence examples for sleek thing from inspiring English sources

The Afon Tywi, a peat-inflected moorland river, rattles over its stony bed and an observant carrion crow – sole sleek thing in this still-winter-sodden-hill landscape – hops from one turk's head to another in optimistic emulation of the pony's quest.

"Using a fancy, sleek thing to check your weight instead of stepping on a scale, that's nice, but I don't know whether it makes a difference," Dr. Mitesh Patel, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School who researches the impact of wearable devices on health outcomes, told me by phone.

"I studied fashion journalism at uni and they were teaching us about Japanese minimalism and all these clean, sleek things that you're supposed to like if you're clever and I suppose that transfers to music in the sense that you're not 'supposed' to like pop music because it's not intellectual and all of these things".

Still, the Gear is hardly the sleekest thing you'll see on store shelves — its aesthetics have more in common with those bulky sports watches than something you'd wear to a nice dinner, a sense of style that only gets reinforced by the built-in pedometer and readily available fitness apps (but more on them later).

No one in the Obama administration would present Mr. Biden as the sleek new thing in American politics.

Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices to make it suitable for laypeople to "pilot".

Sleek little things, DVD's won't sully a bookcase.

If you love sleek, shiny things, a super modern kitchen may be your style.

High fashion 1, Africa 0. There was a fitted suit that I coveted instantly, a sleek 1940s secretarial thing that I was afraid to try (the jacket alone was $1,380).

In an age when so many hotels strive to be the next big, sleek, flashy postmodern thing and to land a spot on Condé Nast Traveler's "Hot List," the Grand flies resolutely, and successfully, in the face of trendiness, with not an intentionally ironic bone in its 900-foot-long body.

All things sleek, space-age and cartoonishly colorful are having a major moment.