slab

Along the Beagle Channel, an icy stretch of water at the southern tip of the Americas, a concrete slab rises from hills covered in low, brownish scrub.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

That helps explain why a shallower Juan de Fuca slab beneath northern Oregon could increase peak ground shaking in populated areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The golden slab loses a few crumbs over the tablecloth when cut and grabbed.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It looked to me like a slab of meat in a butcher’s case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Her mom, probably, asking Hazel to preheat the oven for some frozen slab of something.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

My grandmother’s baked spaghetti came in slabs, which was part of its charm.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Rather than forming one unbroken sheet, Arctic sea ice is divided into separate slabs known as floes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Buzzing slabs of distorted guitar collide with piano, accordion and harmonica, filling all available sonic space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Father Ariel’s jaunty voice echoed from where he was standing at the slabbed marble pulpit, as he smiled out at the congregation.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

For one thing Murray was rake-thin and slouchy, a gangly kid next to the slabbed and ripped power-players of the modern men’s game.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2019

Great sheets of it are slabbed up in front of government buildings and on the "peace line" that separates the Catholic Falls Road from the Protestant Shankill.

From Time Magazine Archive

At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Some moulder'd steps lead into this cool cell,870 Far as the slabbed margin of a well, Whose patient level peeps its crystal eye Right upward, through the bushes, to the sky.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats

The work of it was treated as a burden: the parting, the slabbing sulfur-scented grease to scalp for detangling, the heat pressing into a more manageable texture.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021

The blocks of soap should not be stripped until quite cold throughout, and they should be allowed to stand open for a while before slabbing.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

After the filling material has been thoroughly crutched through the soap it is framed, and, after being several days in the frame to solidify and cool the soap is ready for slabbing, pressing and wrapping.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

His features were so refined as to be almost effeminate, and so regular that they would have been perfect if it had not been for that ill-fitting, slabbing mouth.

From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Martha's cooking and the heavy work were slabbing muscle onto Waziri's lean, brown frame.

From Blind Man's Lantern by George Luther Schelling