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
Some stores offer lifetime guarantees, meaning they’ll send someone out to fix a broken blind slat, replace a malfunctioning motor or untangle cords.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
When I picked up the birdhouse, a nail slipped out and a roof slat fell off.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2021
“Because what a barrier does, it’s still the same thing. It’s the 30-foot steel slat, that’s a barrier.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
Her eyes are trained on a gull wiggling a potato chip out from the wood slat bench.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
New schools were built with similar ignorance of daily realities in the region — with, for instance, air-conditioning hookups instead of traditional slatted window louvers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Every few minutes, a migrant’s hand would pop through the slatted fence and dangle a cellphone and coiled charger.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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
The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
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
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
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