SLICK in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for SLICK, such as:

1. The dancers gave a very slick performance.
2. You know what a slick talker that little varmint is.
3. She's very slick, but I don't believe a word she says.
4. He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready.
5. They saw several oil slicks but could not evaluate their size.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLICK
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slick
 n.  a magazine printed on good quality paper
 v.  give a smooth and glossy appearance
Classic Sentence:
1  You know what a slick talker that little varmint is.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He chirruped to the horse and it plodded off, picking its way carefully down the slick road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  We will be pretty unpopular with the Confederates who weren't as slick as we were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  He's hard as nails and slick as a snake, but he'd be honest if it paid him to be honest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Scarlett is a slick piece of baggage and I don't see why Charlie ever married her, said Uncle Henry gloomily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  He looked blankly indulgent, and yawned, and condescended, "That's a pretty slick arrangement on the radiator, so you can adjust it at any temperature you want."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
8  He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arm, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
9  The front of his vest and coat are slick with grease, and his trousers bag at the knees.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
10  I can still see those two men sitting on the bench; Otto's close-clipped head and Jake's shaggy hair slicked flat in front by a wet comb.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
Example Sentence:
1  She's very slick, but I don't believe a word she says.
2  It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
3  Manilow gave the slick, polished performance that we've come to expect.
4  Hollywood's slick public relations machine has produced a new improved model of a young movie star.
5  The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
6  The dancers gave a very slick performance.
7  It's precisely that sort of slick sales - talk that I mistrust.
8  The oil slick on the water had an opalescent, rainbow-like sheen.
9  They saw several oil slicks but could not evaluate their size.