“I grabbed my slicker as the rain poured down, ensuring that I stayed dry on my way to work.”

“It's aim to show the artificiality of celebrity was short-circuited by the slickness of its design.”

“Mounted on the fascia and not the floor, its slickness gives a whole new meaning to the term ease of drive.”

“There's no cross-section of early period lo-fi, mid-period big studio slickness and late period mid-fi compromise.”

“The surface was like a thick clay which clogged up the tyre treads, turning them into slicks.”

“In the last couple of days new slicks have been spotted off the northern coast of Asturias and the area has been put on high alert.”

“An unassuming and quiet woman from Norway runs a coastal rehabilitation unit that rescues beaches from oil slicks.”