Sentence examples for slick made from inspiring English sources

The fact that the people who called were more charmingly unpolished than slick made it hard to turn them down, let alone hang up on them.

But as the oil slick made its way inexorably here toward the barrier islands at the mouth of Mobile Bay, with forecasts for a swath from Mississippi to the beaches of Pensacola, Fla., later this week, the mood was of the last days.

Brown pelicans and other seabirds often dive into the oil because the slick makes the water look calmer.

The gearbox is artfully slick, making rowing through the gears a pleasure-inducing opportunity.

Inch-deep mud slicks made parking lots slippery.

But he found the fabric slick, which made him slip during balancing poses when legs brace against the arms.

Biologists say the birds dive into oil because the slick makes water look calmer.

We have bought into a new materialism even more demeaning and superficial than the old kind, whereby the good life meant ownership of a slick make of car.

The chum slick Yates made was perhaps twenty-five feet across.

Mr. Brown said that the multihull design was slick, but made capsizing more likely.

He was acquired before the trade deadline last season, and his slick skating made for a perfect complement beside Carlson.