How to Use slab in a Sentence

slab

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  • Score a line across the top of the slab with your saw, knife, or ice pick.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The shower walls and the back wall are all slab, as are the countertops.
    — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Arrange 4 or 5 of the slabs on one side of each shallow bowl.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • They’re parked on slabs, and two of them are covered by full roofs.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said.
    — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But an extra-large kitchen might need four to five slabs.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Wide strips of crust form a pleasing design that shows off the stone fruit in this slab pie.
    — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
  • Their ski and boot tracks were spotted leading to a small slab avalanche.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • The dance floor — a slab of concrete in a stranger’s muddy backyard.
    — Janice Llamoca, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the wreckage below, men pulled the limp body of a child from under a slab next to a burning car.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Kumari quickly diced one full onion and ground it on a stone slab.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the Valley of the Whales, with its cross-bedded and creamy limestone slabs, is a cake of frozen time.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And for Luger fans in Vegas, rest assured the thick slabs of bacon will be there too.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
  • These easy, big-batch slab pie recipes are perfect for serving a crowd.
    — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
  • Having shaken hands with a line of priests, Ramaphosa stood at the foot of a black slab set into the floor: the grave of the Unknown Warrior.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Or, for an even more fitting base, seek out a long, thin loaf of Cuban bread to slice into small ½-inch thick slabs.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Kwiecinski will again cook ribs, 24 slabs of them, all night on the smoker.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The two-part menorah includes a walnut base and a marble slab that holds the candles.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Yet each treats its occupants well at 70 mph on the long concrete slab.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Peter Azevedo, 36, prefers his cell tidy, with his mat rolled up on the concrete slab bed.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Records show the building had a 2003 violation for a crack in the first-floor ceiling slab.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Once the position of the skirts are verified, they will be bolted down to the slab with four hold-down studs each.
    — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • The nearly 30-foot storm surge that crashed into town wiped most buildings from their slabs.
    — Kayla Michelle Smith, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There are two main types of avalanches, Marshall told the Statesman: slough and slab avalanches.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Eight years later the entrance was capped with a concrete slab, and, for good measure, sheathed in floor tile.
    — Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Without the slabs, there would be no plumes and without the plumes, the Indian Ocean Geoid Low wouldn’t exist.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The largest slab recovered measured 2.5 feet by 1 foot.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The slabs were being placed by a winch visible on the Egyptian side of the crossing, the official said.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Sidle up to the giant slab of black marble at the center and order some caviar and a snifter of Champagne.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024

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