slab

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Scotland's largest city is set to welcome more than 3,000 athletes from 10 sports, all of whom have the ambition of leaving with a slab of metal resting on their chest.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Profit in the recent quarter was dented by a $16 million non-cash asset impairment charge related to the company’s decision to relocate its planned second satellite aluminum recycled slab center to Columbus, Miss. from Arizona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

In the classroom, trainees crowded around instructor Luo Duocheng as he demonstrated slicing a slab of beef, marinating it, and skewering the meat to form identical kebabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

He also liked to rub his fingers on the edge of the slab, for it was soft and smooth where the grease had soaked it.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

As they were still teenagers, they were better able to squeeze through narrow spaces, crawling between concrete slabs lit only by a handheld torch or mobile phone so they could tell rescuers where to dig.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Cubes of delicately folded fettuccine, stuffed shells, slabs of lasagna.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Others are fully collapsed, floor slabs stuck together.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Here, slabs of sleek black stone were inlaid with the silver wolf’s head, the surfaces lit with eerie blue flame.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

After having remained in the frame the time required to solidify and cool, the soap is slabbed and cut into cakes.

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

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

But I'd advise you to go to the sawmill for your planks, though I do understand the theory of slabbing.'

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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

Numbers 3 and 4 are for slabbing or converting round logs into square timber.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose