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Sleeking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleek
Example Sentences:
(1) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
(2) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
(3) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(4) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
(5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
(6) Grilled meats ( txuleta means chop) are where he excels, but at the sleek interior bar you can also order flawlessly presented pintxos of seasonal produce.
(7) The issue with existing batteries is that they suck,” Elon Musk , chief executive of Tesla, said in May at the launch of the Powerwall , a sleek new battery.
(8) In a whir of lycra and straining calf muscles, the sleek, bent bodies flashed past, urged on by the crowds.
(9) These two saunas both boast the sleek, angular lines of Nordic architecture, and are built from ecologically friendly materials.
(10) After a false start in 2006 with a bill that was killed by parliament for being too weak, he launched a sleek new vehicle – “Turning the Corner” – in March 2007, with new emissions targets for each sector of the economy, crucially including oil and gas.
(11) Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor' Read more On Saturday evening, with their sleek humanoid robot DRC-Hubo, a team of roboticists and engineers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, won $2m from the R&D arm of the US defense department, Darpa, by outperforming 24 other robots in a simulated nuclear reactor.
(12) Photograph: Joha Gronvall In search of other public saunas in Helsinki I visited Kulttuurisauna , a sleek, modernist eco-sauna designed in 2013 by Tuomas Toivonen and Nene Tsuboi in the heart of the Merihaka district; and then to the other extreme, the tiny, self-service Sompasauna shacks on the banks of the Gulf Of Finland in the so-called Freezone of Sompasaari (a kind of Mad Max hinterland full of junk yards and disused buildings covered in graffiti).
(13) The Model 3 looks like a shorter version of the Model S, with a similar sleek profile, elongated hood and a panoramic glass roof.
(14) Just like iPhones and Kindles before it, the stylish and sleek iPad is becoming increasingly easy to spot in subway cars or on park benches across New York.
(15) Academics respond: Brexit would weaken UK university research and funding Read more “Certainly, few people here thought the outcome would have any major impact on their work,” said Vandevyver, a Belgian, sitting in a conference room on the school’s sleek, modernist campus on the city outskirts.
(16) The negative publicity - at odds with the company's sleek designs and 'Just Do It' slogan - has seen the sales of its trainers plummet.
(17) I’m staying at Hossan Lomakeskus , with accommodation in sleek wooden huts with floor-to-ceiling windows and uninterrupted views of Hossa lake.
(18) They chanted slogans and held up signs as a small, select group of people arrived in sleek sports cars and were ushered inside the relatively modest residence where the billionaire lives with his wife, Priscilla Chan.
(19) While most British Muslims can relate to having to buy a few essentials before Ramadan – dates, new hijabs, a sleek new abaya – for the vast majority of us, who are, to say the least, very unlikely to have a Harrods Rewards card, the idea of going on a vast Ramadan shopping spree is an alien concept.
(20) Take the sleek blue tram to rue Achard and, as you get off, you find yourself facing a squat terrace of abandoned houses.
Sleeving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve
Example Sentences:
(1) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
(2) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(3) Lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery was done in 3 patients, of which one had bilobectomy plus one segmentectomy with segmental bronchoplasty, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and wedge excision of the pulmonary artery in 1, and regular lobectomy with sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 1.
(4) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
(5) Distention of the antral sleeve by hydrostatic pressure (3-25cm H2O) caused stepwise and significant increase in gastrin release that was reversible.
(6) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(7) Transperineurial arterioles are defined as any arteriole that is confined to a perineurial cell compartment, which would include all arterioles within the perineurium proper or within perineurial sleeves in the epi- or endoneurium.
(8) When right upper sleeve lobectomy was performed, only limited peribronchial inflammation related to PDT procedure was detected indicating only slight extrabronchial influence of PDT.
(9) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
(10) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
(11) A sleeve resection of the involved trachea with reanastomosis was successful, and the patient is alive and well with no evidence of tumor four years later.
(12) Sleeve resection is the ideal form of excisional therapy for benign endobronchial tumors, bronchostenosis, tumors of low-grade malignant potential, and for selected cases of carcinoma.
(13) Between the submitochondrial sleeve and the axoneme is a space, the cytoplasmic canal, that is open to the exterior posteriorly.
(14) Since 1975 200 tracheal sleeve resections for iatrogenic tracheal and subglottic laryngeal stenoses have been performed in our institution.
(15) Conservative surgery by sleeve resection without pulmonary resection was performed.
(16) In 1976 Dent (Gastroenterology 71: 263-267) introduced a sleeve-catheter device for obtaining continuous recording of lower esophageal sphincter pressure.
(17) As a rule, conventional myelography showed only minor root-sleeve deformity.
(18) Entomophthoromycosis was diagnosed by finding wide eosinophilic sleeves intimately surrounding thin-walled hyphae.
(19) Bonus points, of course, for anyone wearing gloves and short-sleeved shirt.
(20) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .