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

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

The addition of heavy landscape planters and thick paving stone on the pool deck in the 1990s further stressed the building, adding tons of uncalculated deadweight to the deficient slab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

No little ducks and vultures and baskets, all spelling words, appeared upon a slab under the skillful chisel of an artist.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Under this law, employers are required to take steps to protect workers, such as providing protective respirators and using water to suppress dust, when employees are cutting, grinding or polishing slabs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

They took down beachside residential towers where wealthier Venezuelans from the nearby capital, Caracas, escaped for weekend getaways, and cheaply constructed low-income high-rises where Styrofoam was used as filler between cement slabs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Others are fully collapsed, floor slabs stuck together.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Two diggers, as well as a crane that was lifting up concrete slabs was also there.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

My old slabbed well had got filled up with sand, and it was evident that many natives had visited the place since I left on the 24th of March, 103 days ago.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles

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

These, too far off to supply wood for firing or slabbing, still stood green and timbered, and looked down upon the havoc that had been made of the fair, pastoral lands.

From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

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

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