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leek

[ UK /lˈiːk/ ]
[ US /ˈɫik/ ]
NOUN
  1. plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
  2. related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

How To Use leek In A Sentence

  • The reefs close to shore are alive with pollack, and conger eels when the boat is anchored and during the summer months there are lots of the sleek and fast running blue sharks around.
  • This wonder product keeps brows looking sleek all day. The Sun
  • She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
  • It was sleek and aerodynamic, shone in his room like a light bulb.
  • But, as soon as that box landed, as soon as he delved in and lifted out his brassie and his spoon and his cleek, Reid did not have a single complaint in the whole wide world.
  • I was in a unique position to write these stories for a Western audience – stories about the farm and the old feudal ways, the dissolving feudal order and the new way coming, the sleek businessmen from the cities. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about his life and his first collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.
  • Wash and drain in a colander then stir leeks and thyme into the onion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Onions, garlic and leeks are found to have conflicting images throughout much of the world.
  • She carries our bags and warms some leek and potato soup. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the sofas I encounter a perspex case containing a sleek-looking chair.
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