How To Use Slab In A Sentence

The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith. Archive 2008-07-01
Dr Lotto has invented special paving slabs made of photovoltaic cells and recycled glass to harvest sunlight and to help power the structure. Times, Sunday Times
‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

You enter a lobby lined with great slabs of marble, swirled with honey and caramel. Times, Sunday Times
He undoes the clips and straps producing a sword that looks as though it were a slab of scrap metal.
Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
With the cost of floor coverings over concrete subfloors now estimated at more than a billion dollars a year in the United States, far greater attention must be given to the issue of moisture within and below concrete slabs on grade.
To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints
Between slabs of bread the crispness was tolerable.
Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof.
Both of the metal slabs on his hips unfolded into their gun modes and began blasting away the enemy units two at a time.
It only takes a moment to sear a decent slab of bluefin tuna. Times, Sunday Times
They also can be washed to ensure that the next slab or tilt panel has a clean edge.
Will cooking on a salt slab make the perfect steak? Times, Sunday Times
Now we were before the great hall itself, and I looked up at timber walls made of slabs of oak four times my height.
A slab of hyperfiber slid from the ceiling, and the final door was shut. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
By the time a slab of venison was roasting over the coals it was a glowing, glossy tan.
In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time.
‘This size is big enough to carry heavier loads and small enough to move around town on a lowboy and allows us to do fine grading, which is very important for preparing sites for building slabs,’ he says.
It has been carved from a massive slab of marble.
At each corner of the square slab stood four upright stelae.
Their haul included golden crowns, precious chalices, tabots, altar slabs, beautiful processional crosses, dozens of fine manuscripts and his hair.
Water flows through radiant tubes in floor slabs for both heating and cooling.
The frittata roll is also divine: a squidgy herby omelette sitting between two slabs of bread or in a roll is the stuff of dreams.
Because the downgoing slab of lithosphere is heavier than the plastic asthenosphere below, it tends to sink passively; and the older the lithosphere, the steeper the dip.
He turns on the light and walks to the body of the old man laying on the slab.
They left wide strips between large slabs of Arizona flagstone for planting, and filled the spaces with giant ajuga and Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’.
They scratched this on a slab of slatelike rock, with a sharp iron awl; and, reckoning the present day as about October first, agreed that every waking-time they would cross off one square. Darkness and Dawn
It does not take much to do this - lift a paving slab or two, bring in some patio pots or introduce hanging baskets and window boxes. The Sun
He could stop by Tinton, maybe Yolanda was around... nah, Yolanda was a fish, man, useless, she just lies there like some slab. SPIDERTOWN
Dead fish, huge things that would grace any fishmonger's slab, could be had by sticking your hand in the water. Times, Sunday Times
Stone slabs were removed and the footpaths were cemented.
The bathroom and the floor were supposed to be retiled and new slabs laid on the driveway, she said.
Redid a 5.9 on the slab, got farther than before on a balancy stretchy slopy misrated 5.8 (it's a 5. 9+ or I'm a monkey), and got one move farther on my 5.10 - project. In which our heroine begs for death.
Fresh concrete is then poured over the slabs on site to produce a floor some 10 inches thick.
According to research feature, vertical wheel - rail coupling model of train - slab rack is established.
Testing of these models requires that the spatial and temporal distribution of strain and vorticity domains be mapped out across the slab.
We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
I checked the shackles that held the Monster to its slab, giving it a sharp cuff as it lashed out with its wicked needle-thin teeth at my face, slobber and foam flying from its mouth.
The chances are you need a big slab of red meat to wake you up. The Sun
The tunnels are sometimes fortified by concrete slabs, and some are equipped with electricity and phone lines. Times, Sunday Times
We want to avoid that - because let's face it - if you have to slabber your muffin with butter to make it edible, you've just lost the benefit of lowering the fat. In Search of An Amazing Protein Muffin
Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture.
We had cod goujons, which came with tartar sauce, and a slab of flavoursome chicken liver paté with a sweet redcurrant sauce and dainty triangles of toast.
No, no, avaunt -- I'll not be slabbered and kissed now -- I'm not i 'th' humour. The Old Bachelor: a Comedy
In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Teddy-risation™
He commented on the ease with which slabs were removed, demonstrating that they were not firmly bedded to 75% depth in accordance with our printed recommendations.
There will be some shiny drippy marks that look almost like varnish on the rough edges of the slab if the stone is resined.
Once we socialize or governmentalize -- pick your poison nomenclature that the right wing will use to mislabel it -- healthcare for big industry, it will be easier, when we have the system in place, to provide it to people who are laid off. Printing: Impeachment, Bush's Child Health Care Veto and Univeral Single Payer Health Insurance
And these prodigious slabs of gneiss now lay amidst schistous marl and calcareous rock. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
You will notice custom quality and upgrades throughout this home such as coffered ceilings, solid oak trim, slab granite counter tops and beautifully maintained hardwood floors. WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies
I followed and when I arrived at the slung chockstone I yelled for slack to get some rope in order to lower myself across the slab.
The breakfast hall floor has large slabs of Devon stone, sections of which had risen up because of water damage.
Evidently, as the water slowly receded in the city, the museum's ground floor took on water from hydrostatic pressure through cracks in the concrete slab.
In Sejima's work, the envelope becomes fabric stretching between differently-sized slabs.
Granite - a single slab, unbroken and unmarred, smoothed by Sun and Rain, hugged by Salal and Fir where it met surrounding Cliff, with Fern and Moss feathering it as it touched Pool's edge.
And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
En el sentido antropolgico, tal perspectiva implicara considerar las formas religiosas ms all de la idea tradicional de unidades de observacin y de anlisis aislables, autocontenidas, para ms bien considerarlas en una contextualizacin histrica, poltica, econmica y tecnolgica cambiante, lo cul conduce the un encuadre respecto the la forma en que este tipo de prcticas religiosas constituyen el objeto para pensar las diferencias culturales, la subjetividad, la intersubjetividad y la sociabilidad. Archive 2009-12-01
The drovers made a fire and put on a pot of coffee and began frying up pancakes and slabs of pork.
The use of pre-set anchor lugs in the subbase to prevent long-term slab movements on the steep grade prevented concrete trucks from backing down the grade to deliver concrete.
Anti-censorship feminism is often very misunderstood and mislabelled and I would recommend this book to anyone, whatever their stance.
The couple sat in fear for 20 minutes as bricks and paving slabs were hurled through windows. The Sun
Electrical cables draped it like jungle vines; cement peeled from its facade like slabs of granite from Junagadh mountain.
A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. First footsteps in East Africa
Properly speaking, a superaltar is a small movable slab of stone, which is placed, as occasion for the celebration of the Holy Communion may require, upon some unconsecrated table or altar.
He works on a plaster slab, drawing with commercial underglazes in reverse.
They were able to deploy facts and figures to sharpen the journalism, challenging those politicians who spoke in pre-fabricated slabs of argument.
It grew heavier and heavier until it felt like he was shouldering a man-sized slab of stone and had to set the body down.
He pushed it and the next sound heard was of two marble slabs being rubbed together.
Perhaps - unlike you - she declined that great big slab of delicious chocolate cake.
She'd left the micropore cast on the bedslab in their loft, beside the transdermal inducer. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
This book is somewhat dense, but if you like big slabs of no-nonsense political history, it is a feast.
So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily. The Time of the Transference
The mozzarella garnish could be swapped for slabs of feta or creamy goat 's cheese. Times, Sunday Times
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of megalitres being traded for one slab of beer.
To call this footage anything other than cutting room floor sweepings would be to mislabel them.
Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab.
On this was a small cabin constructed of slabs, of baric-covered wood. Ralestone Luck
Barton Malow also placed 1700 cubic yards of SCC to cast a mat-slab for the building.
Mr. Marden distilled the basic elements of the image into slablike planes of gray-green (background), gray-gray (garments) and grayed pink (flesh). Archive 2006-11-01
Through the analysis of the stress characteristics of the circular pipe cavity mushroom floor, this paper analyzes the calculating model and method of the floor slab.
The steel is cast in ingots, and the ingots are rolled on a slabbing mill or a blooming mill into slabs or sheet bars.
Huge slabs of raw meat were roasting slowly within the scorching flames.
Walking further into the colour library - the warehouse where slabs of smalti are stored - is even more intense. Times, Sunday Times
An entire gopuram, a huge round ball carved intricately, lies forlorn in the shallow sea, surrounded by piles of slabs and bricks and more carvings and general debris from the temple.
The slabs or sheet bars are then conditioned prior to being hot rolled on a finishing mill.
There was no inscription on the urn, or on the bodylength slab of stone on the ground.
Beginning in Early Miocene time, southward extrusion of the Greater Himalayan Slab has had a profound influence on the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Himalaya.
Let me demonstrate by lying down on this cold, slabby marble. Francine witte | next thing she knew | my husband’s mistress | suddenly | the romance of sadness | death primer « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Some churches are as warm and inviting as a mortuary slab.
Whilst making a desperate rush after one, cap in hand, and all too unheedful of the obstacles lying in my path, I struck the toes of my bootless left foot against a thin slab of earthfast stone, which stood edge-on and straight up.
It has a vast structure, built from great slabs of musical ideas, themes and textures. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes I could murder a slab of chocolate but I don't.
The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the _king_, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
Father had glowered at her — an expression his slablike face seemed designed for — but she ignored him. Sun of Suns
On the fishmonger's slab the rows of dead fish symbolized everyone's lack of interest in his fate. The Times Literary Supplement
Anticipating the query, I said, "And these are the huge beasts of the earth, and the cattle of the third great period of organic existence; and yonder, in the same apartment, you see, but at its further end, is the famous fossil man of Guadaloupe, locked up by the petrifactive agencies in a slab of limestone. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
We also wanted to make it cyclone proof, so John came up with a unique fixing system to bolt the panel to the slab.
Already in her cycling togs, save for a pair of fuzzy tan slippers, she sits down at the tiny kitchen counter and plows through a slab of French toast.
This opening is closed by a solid slab of Pakistani onyx, which can be slid in and out of position.
Slab pull is the theory in which subduction of the earth's crust is thought to pull the plates apart.
Cobwebs coated the shelves, which were piled with scrolls, leaves, and stone slabs.
In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal.
The font used on the cover and throughout the book is a serif font with distinctive, thick slab ends - a kind of conservative font appropriate for a school textbook.
Japan's consumers have had their trust in food safety battered by a recent rash of scandals involving mislabelled beef, pork and poultry and by an outbreak of mad cow disease last year.
Tadeusz sat at the polished slab of burl oak that served as the desk in his home office, sorting through his photographs of Katerina. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Tied together by a length of rope, Whymper and the guide scrambled up the steep slopes until they reached a tall slab of rock known as the Chimney.
Sometimes it is a mislabelled attempt to create corporate loyalty, or to do demographic-based marketing.
Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty.
Depending on the type of masonry sealer, some will also work to seal concrete slabs.
The eastward or southeastward mantle flow resulting from the collision of IndiaEurasia probably pushed rollback of slabs east and southeast to East Asian continent, further causing back arc spreading.
When you're shopping for a granite countertop, remember that veining and pattern can vary enormously from slab to slab, so be sure to visit the store or stone yard to find a piece you love. Q&A: What's the most popular countertop for kitchens?
Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
On a marble slab near to the cooker there was a joint of ham and a fat salami ready for slicing.
This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame.
We did bag some fat ringed perch, nearly two dozen slab-sized crappies, and a similar number of northern pike.
I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air. Bird Cloud
A stela is a free-standing stone slab, generally rectangular in shape but sometimes with a rounded or pointed top. Interactive Dig Waka' - Bulletin Board
One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits into blocks and slabs, all the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
In the moonlight it appeared more like a great slab of concrete than a refuge for ducks.
Even the use of stone cladding is another area where the machine-sawn masonry seldom lives up to expectations and slabs of stone can often look like concrete.
Three big slabs of toast heaped with very fresh crab were lightly dressed and had an exciting kick of chilli. Times, Sunday Times
S. threats could help Bo Xilai, the nationalist party secretary of Chonqqing, a city that recently shut down 13 Wal-Marts for allegedly selling mislabeled pork.
Provide the recommended level of insulation under floors above unheated spaces, around walls in a heated basement or unventilated crawl space, and on the edges of slabs-on-grade.
Hers was by far the better of the two, the parfait a rich, pungent slab of flavour that left her purring.
Organized but unforgiving slabs of frantic bass and speedfreak drums are topped with distorted vocals, occasionally giving way for handclaps, vocoder voices and electro intros.
The floor slab perimeters are suspended via steel hanging rods located in alternate curtain walling mullions with no columns at ground floor level to compromise the huge entrance foyer.
At the moment I am reading King’s “The Shining” and the internal monologue of all the characters features prominently – though in tiny snippets, rather than in large slabs and are delineated from the rest of the narrative, through the use of brackets. Interior Monologues in Writing « Write Anything
He examined the stone slab floor and in one of the slabs discovered a ring. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
The faces of both slabs are then coated with multiple layers of thin-film gold or dielectric reflectors.
And how dangerous a word — often misleading us into slabbing with extraneous floridities what would otherwise, on its own plane, be Art! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
A steel slab comprising the above constituents is produced by preparing the steel in a converter followed by either continuous casting or ingot making/blooming.
Work started on the site for the pergola today, with the foundations being levelled and the gaps between the stone being filled with coarse gravel ready to receive sand and slabs.
Remaining vultures grab slabs of softened gristle and greedily devour them.
While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first. The Line Of Best Fit
She wasn't eating generic slabs of lumpy meat that had nothing in common with happy moo-cows and snouty piglets; no, she was eating something with eyes, legs, and claws. The Trip
There's no great dearth of terrines, no dreadful famine of chicken liver parfait and, as far as I'm aware, the meatpaste market still thrives in its own quiet way, but where oh where are the great slablike pâtés of my youth? How to make pâté
Listed also are over 600 tombstones and grave slabs from the old cemetery in Aghamore.
When it comes into the saw mill the sawer has to go and take the log to the big old circle saw where it cuts the first slab off. Oral History Interview with Robert Riley, February 1, 1994. Interview K-0106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Whether mislabeled "flushable" or not, the county's utilities division is targeting them in a new campaign to keep them out of sewer systems. Auburn Journal - Top Stories
The pastry chef's version of bread pudding is a dense slab of faintly eggy brioche, served with a scoop of coconut sorbet.
There were also some quite spectacular pieces of dark red meat on show, available either in the form of a fat slab of steak or in choice little cuts delivered on a slice of crusty bread.
In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
Radiant cooling in the floor slab helps lower the room temperature more before the air is exhausted into an atrium space.
Shakily I follow the same course, yanking myself into the space between two broad slabs.
As your mind tries to comprehend the harshness of the scene your eyes trace a route through the rocks - up steep screes above the frozen lochan, onto a long slabby ridge.
We suggest that this process is the dominant mechanism of deep slab hydration, although it may be locally aided by the enhancement in porosity due to prefailure dilatancy Naturejobs - All Jobs
Curve XXVI" and "Curve XXVII" (both 1982, and topping out well above the official height of a basketball rim), are slabs of red oak, while the slightly shorter "Curve XLII" and "Curve XLIII" (both 1984) have been fashioned, respectively, from zebrawood and African sapele. Beautiful, Quiet and Spare
Three big slabs of toast heaped with very fresh crab were lightly dressed and had an exciting kick of chilli. Times, Sunday Times
Sadly, if it continues, that is what is threatening to become of the great Liberal Party tradition: a cold-hearted butcher to the withering slab of the Australian body, and the public get sausages for policy from the sweepings off the floor.
The glue and paint residue will have to be scraped and sanded after you have put the solvent on the concrete slab.
Heavy slabs had been laid atop the ground over their coffins to discourage body snatchers.
Why would food companies mislabel products? Times, Sunday Times
We epoxied wood blocks to the slab and screwed them to the frame.
A long cist grave is essentially a stone box or coffin constructed within the grave, usually from stone slabs. Birdoswald Roman Fort: post-Roman activity on the site
It gets better and better, the water cutting deeper into the curved and hollowed rock, with slabby undercuts and terraced waterfalls.
Nothing was left but slab-sided scrub beasts as mean as the rock desert that men had crowded them into. REMEMBER SUMMER
For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Crow and Grape Leaf Cookie Jar
The white cloud mountain minnow is often mislabeled as a white cloud danio. Day in the Life of an Idiot
She took her thumb off the demon and was abruptly skyborn as the white stallion cleared a slab of twisted, smoking metal at a bound. Calde of the Long Sun
But I also climbed -- well, I kind of built myself a rainbow, because I decided I was being wimpy, and I think that was about a 5.7, and I also did two 5. 8s on the slab and a tricky psych-out of a 5.8 in the dihedral under and over the barrel vault, which I had also done before. Almost won but it doesn' count. it never does.
It was a great slab-sided craft with lots of wooden balconies and curtained windows.
A paver is a brick, concrete block or stone that is used to lay on a flat surface to make a driveway, walkway or patio Some pavers are laid down and interlock with sand that is placed between them Others are laid down with concrete Garden paving slabs are an easy way to enhance the look of an outside garden and walkway They are not hard to install and a job for any capable do-it-yourselfer We Blog A Lot
But take a second look, notice the vast, slabby areas of bland surface, and it soon loses its force. Times, Sunday Times
Quite an achievement, cause these mags are going for big bucks on eBay and the CGC-minded crowd aren't helping collectors who actually prefer to read their comics enjoy them by slabbing these babies away. 1970's Flashback: The Rook
The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.
The substance of the building is in-situ concrete, in the form of columns and slabs.
Economists say slab should be made in low-cost developing countries, close to a secure supply of raw materials.
The bar has designed its female toilets to impress - with large slabs of macrocarpa as sinks and TV screens playing music videos.
Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
The Tennessean sons of a preacher man swerved past the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album to create an almighty slab of jaded gothic Southern rock.
I saw her face, cold as stone and heavy as a marble slab.
Stone slabs surrounding the churchyard were knocked over and iron railings and the church noticeboard flattened after a green Rover car which was being followed by police went out of control.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet and his successor, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, sent a letter late last week to the Italian government callingfor faster spending cuts, an overhaulof Italy'slabor rulesand measures to liberalize cosseted business sectors, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. ECB Puts Pressure on Italy
In winter it was fantastic fishing roach, chub, silver bream and slabs with the odd barbel and carp.
For this particular bridge the amount of prestressing was determined by limiting the axial tensile stress in the slab to approximately half the cracking strength of the concrete under 50 percent of the design live load.
Although foundation slabs, driveways, sidewalks, and retaining walls all look like big hunks of rock, there are forces acting in different directions that the concrete structure must resist.
She begins to experiment, creating casts of mortuary slabs as well as mundane household objects.
I couldn't see how far down the slabbed granite wall dropped, but as I peered into the darkening green water, I knew it was too far for me to even think about touching the bottom, not on air.
Its modern version—the idea that somewhere in us is an authentic self, waiting to emerge like a sculpture from a slab of marble—is equally unable to withstand the obvious effects of mind-altering drugs, unless you define that self tautologically as whatever is released by the chemical. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbeled limestone slabs.
Massive concrete floor slabs provide thermal storage, collecting heat and giving it off again later on.
International cricket is a physical game now: Australia sped this process along by fielding wonderful players who also happened to look like contact-sport athletes, the all-track bullies Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee, one glimpse of whose slabbed physique was enough to set Shane Warne off on the path of the slimming pill. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
There's a wide range of slab pizzas, with toppings like bocconcini, spicy calabrese, onions and cheese, fresh tomatoes, rapini and the all-dressed Motta special.
On slabs with waterproof finishes, problems start to develop when the relative humidity climbs above 87%.
Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
There is a room divider topped with an enormous slab of black granite, to neatly bisect the dining area.
Plenty of slabs of lurid brick await their first graffito. Times, Sunday Times
Ancient Romans arguably created the first modern form of books called codices by tying together parchment paper between two wooden slabs. Film Junk
In this article, you incorrectly mislabeled Milton Friedman as an "arch-conservative" when Friedman is actually a libertarian.
96 Drains were usually constructed 18 in. square and were built with lime-mortared masonry walls that supported flat slab stones beneath the road metal.
Burnett to restrain the roving eyes of the congregation and make gallants better attend to their devotions; all these, in addition to the memorial slabs and tablets, and weeping angels over cinereal urns, tend to give the church that air of ugliness and comfort which the modern churchman detests. She and I, Volume 1
If drain tile is present, the pipe can be tied in to the drain tile, as this creates a perfect way to suck air soil gases from under the entire slab. Reuben's Home Inspection Blog - Part 2
It's kind of, well, just a slabbed area at the moment, but I have a plan to make it into a small courtyard garden.
The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location.
As a kind of new-style floor slab or boarding system, concrete sandwich panels have been all along applied to one-way slab.
The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch.
Mackerel - traditionally a fair-weather fish - is still flashing its silver-blue disco gear on the fishmonger's slab. Times, Sunday Times

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