How To Use Slatey In A Sentence

Very light straw color, green-apple nose, with a citrusy vibrancy on the palate leading to a slatey, minerally note suggestive of a great Mosel. Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure?
The summit of the small island is composed of a highly crystalline basalt; lower down I found a hard, stratified slatey sandstone, while on the beach are huge blocks of lava, and scattered masses of white coralline limestone. The Malay Archipelago
The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together. The Malay Archipelago
Blue sky showed between the slatey clouds, and there was a hint of damp in the air. The Serpent's Shadow
Here again the upheaved slatey rock appeared, with the same dip and direction as in the Sadong River. The Malay Archipelago

The northernmost outcrops consist of Ordovician chloritic slates, phyllitic metavolcanic rocks and slatey metapelitic rocks.
It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson. The Malay Archipelago
He has, ever since, been there, peeping in at me in my torment; revealing to me by snatches, in the pale lights and slatey shadows where he comes and goes, bare-headed — a bill-hook, standing edgewise in his hair. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The mineral-rich metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks with slatey cleavage are finer-grained and less metamorphosed than most Piedmont regions. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
“My idea was based on the Wales exterior and it was very dark, very slatey, with lots of misty smoke coming in,” Laing continues. 41 High Resolution Photos from Clash of the Titans | /Film