slat
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We love the island vibe and have added some cherrywood slat doors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
They hand-scrub every little slat of the blinds.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Season 3 ends with a small portion of its people reunited in a grandly staged gathering that holds the spiritual punch of bolting one more slat into place along that franchise bridge.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2023
He had the slat fence removed and reconfigured it, turning it into supports for paintings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Adam traced one of the slat shadows on his desk with his forefinger.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Through the slatted wall, volunteers provide them with clothes, medical supplies and snacks — even free WiFi and an electrical strip to charge their phones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
People of this community manage their flow by situating themselves over a gap in the slatted floors of their homes, free-bleeding onto the lush forest greenery below.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 29, 2023
Although some weather stations are located at airports, temperature readings are taken from thermometers in a Stevenson screen, which is a white slatted box with its door facing north.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022
For a little extra oomph, take the same slatted headboard concept as seen above but make it rainbow!
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022
Their luxury was teatime, between four and five, when they took down from the wooden slatted shelves their miniature brown teapots inscribed with their names and sat together in a little dayroom off the ward.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Last week the biggest, most serious maritime strike in U. S. history ran through its second week with all three coasts fretted by waterfront squalls and with peace negotiations slatting dismally in the doldrums.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second race petered out in a slatting calm.
From Time Magazine Archive
She and Nat went to the window together and watched the rain slatting down in the weed-grown garden.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
The wind took the Frog backward, but with the sails loose and slatting she moved so slowly that she was effectively still.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
Sitting at the table in the darkness, the moonlight slatting into the cabin through the small windows in bars of pale white, he hated himself more than all the rest.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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