Sentence examples for slick over from inspiring English sources

The term 'slick over' is not typically used in written English.
It has more of an informal, conversational usage. For example, you might say: "I don't know why they're trying to slick over the fact that they made a mistake."

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He is settling better now, but he really is slick over a hurdle.

Nothing can breathe under oil, nor register that dark membrane's slick over sight.

"You can see there that he's every bit as slick over a hurdle as he is a fence," Reynolds said.

Floating booms can be placed around the source of the spill or at entrances to channels and harbours to reduce the spreading of an oil slick over the sea surface.

Lucy Skaer's suspended whale skull – the show's big highlight – finds an echo in Roger Hiorns's installation, where bovine brain matter is turned into little pellets, and where a jet engine has been ground to dust and spread like a slick over the gallery floor.

He plans to lay satellite imagery of the shifting oil slick over the rigs' day-to-day locations to determine when the ROVs were in oiled waters.

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Desperately seeking an antidote to the slick over-professionalism that is flat-lining contemporary art?

But can such British kook fly in the spiritual home of slick, over-sized corporate events?

Back in March, James Michael McAdoo, the power forward for the Golden State Warriors, tweeted out a photo of himself in the training room, sporting a pair of slick over-the-ear headphones.

This is classified as: cut to a reasonable length, filed to your desired shape, and slicked over with some top/base coat, to keep it from breaking off.

Ironically for Zuckerberg, it's his slick and over-managed PR that makes you immediately distrust him.

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