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    slab example sentences

    slab


    slabbed


    slabs


    1. ’ He said quietly, indicating a slab of Gottestone


    2. A single slab can be configured for up to a trillion of them


    3. I built a small auxiliary store in the slab that the entanglement instrumentation was in and my soul was using the verons in that store when the entanglement occurred


    4. Jorma looked at that little slab of stone pavement


    5. He is almost sure that the soundtrack that has been running through his head since he first saw Leona on the mortuary slab is running backwards, delivering subliminal messages, but he can't understand a word


    6. There was a thick slab of a groaning board set over the two monument stones


    7. Back then Arby's would display a whole slab of roast beef in a glass case like a roast beef aquarium fish twirling on the spigot


    8. A slab of granite pressing down on her prostrate form, with more rocks added slowly, until the last few drops of blood oozed from her pores… Vines twisted tight around her throat, then released each time light left her eyes… A stake skewered through her body from one end to the other


    9. They approached the marble slab on which the body had been laid out and covered with a white linen sheet so that only the face was visible


    10. send a slab of concrete to the moon, he has

    11. Blood seeped from several deep cuts in her body, running down the stone slab to the floor


    12. In it stood a large stone slab, much like the altar piece Sebastian had taken Aspen from in Seattle


    13. His mind jumped back to that horrible day as he looked at the slab, though it was empty


    14. To the sides of the slab were circles which housed the missing gods


    15. She stood under the arch of the open door, leaning against a slab of grey stone


    16. The door was a heavy metal slab, with two locks and a tiny barred window with a sliding shutter


    17. looked up at the rafter where his slab of bacon was always hung


    18. I bought a big slab of chocolate and went to Evelyn’s flat on my way home from Baggies


    19. "Pecans are cooked to the soft ball stage with brown sugar, white sugar, evaporated milk and butter and then beaten and poured on a slab to firm up in these sweet, chewy candies


    20. A cold slab stood beneath a huge light in the centre of the room

    21. Knives, scalpels, scissors and other instruments were laid out on a tray next to the slab


    22. Machines surrounded the head of the slab and I shivered, adjusting to the cold air and mood of the room


    23. A loud bang gave us both such a fright that we jumped, as the main doors swung open and Dena entered on another mobile slab which was pushed alongside the centre one


    24. The medical staff efficiently transferred her from the one slab to the other


    25. A screen was positioned over her so that we could not see her belly once we had been manoeuvred to the top of the slab next to her head


    26. He found a bleached old log to sit on, and placed a flat slab of stone to act as a reflector, feeling quite proud of his Boy Scout skills


    27. “This slab here is full of what they call pteropoda, that’s the Aronka shale deposit


    28. A large flat concrete slab lay in front of him, so big that his torch didn’t illuminate the far side


    29. As his feet crunched across the gravel on the far side of the slab, something caught his attention; a shooting star flashing across the night sky


    30. That’s what the big concrete slab reminded him of

    31. Walking the perimeter of the concrete slab he found nothing to raise any concerns


    32. The limestone slab was slowly pushed aside and strong candle light filled the underground tunnels


    33. In the company of the cousin, they traveled, late one night, to the New Brunswick, New Jersey, Coroner’s Office, where, in a truly chilling experience, they were fingerprinted and officially photographed as corpses, laying on a cold slab with talcum-dusted faces, blue lipstick and with their jaws held slack


    34. The air thickened with alarming speed and the smell grew stronger; then he saw it appear over the crest, strange thin beams of light sprouting from what might have been a head of sorts: a glistening metal hulk glinted under the starlight, uniformly gray and unassumingly blocky, a rectangle slab larger than a man


    35. The Pilgrim saw it too and sprung up like a coiled snake, his hand making a large slashing motion at the metal slab delivering a glancing blow and then rolling back down the slope of the mount, tumbling and coming to rest at what seemed like a safer distance from the metal slab


    36. His stare was focused on the metal slab slowly coming their way, improbably keeping itself afloat half a foot above the sand:


    37. A floating slab of gray metal had appeared in the middle of the night out of nowhere, and the Pilgrim had attacked it to no avail with his knife


    38. Molo asked himself what use were a knife and a stick against a floating slab of metal


    39. But Hilderich managed to explain to her what had happened, though she wasn’t sure how she had come to be in the capsule, nor what the data slab contained


    40. She points to the center of the slab, where there is a small impression, like a shallow bowl carved into the stone

    41. And then, across the slab of stone, I see my brother


    42. Reggie steps on the stone slab and opens a valve in the bottom of the water tank


    43. The drops turn into a stream of water, and soon water gushes out of the tank, splattering all over the slab, soaking the bottom of Reggie’s pants


    44. "And this old slab made such a jolly table


    45. Ira ran, until he was backed up against a giant slab of metal


    46. Next, at the center of the square, were, on the left, the twin temples of the gods Tlaloc (painted blue) and Huitzilopochtli (painted red) atop the tallest pyramid and, on the right, the blue truncated pyramid of the god Tengri with the simple stone slab (also painted blue) on which incense constantly burned


    47. Carefully, I replaced the stone slab and removed all evidence of my being there


    48. “It’s about an underpaid actor lying on a slab in the morgue because you chose to use him as an expendable pawn in your war with the Russian Mafia


    49. rear of the building, her feet left the white slab and landed on the brown dirt


    50. I was just there, lying on a slab of cold stone that served as bed














































    1. Rosemary strode on ahead along the slabbed path between the castellations and the fence, her hair billowing out behind her as she left the shelter of the tower, striding unconcerned as if she was walking in the safety of the Main Street


    2. Well: slainte! Around the slabbed tables the tangle of wined breaths and grumbling gorges


    3. The floor’s wooden planks had been slabbed off by the Charisian engineers’ water-powered sawmills, and he felt his eyelids trying to slide shut as he sat in warm comfort and listened to the wind moaning outside the walls


    1. By tea time he had laid all of the remaining hardcore, covered it with gravel and soft sand, and raked it level and smooth so that he could begin laying the slabs the following weekend


    2. the slabs the following weekend


    3. The garden is long and thin, hedged on both sides with an old, mossy path of paving slabs running down the middle from a small patio area by the house


    4. The passenger window is open a couple of inches and the sound of the wind catching on slabs of metal and glass rushes into the car


    5. Max Sheehan jogged down the concrete slabs of the Villa’s front lot,


    6. Dozens of giant stone slabs arose from the ground


    7. Slabs of rubble etched by the elements closed him in


    8. The building itself was made of light brown sandstone slabs, painstakingly carved from huge rocks and cleverly shaped by expert craftsmen to fit together without the slightest opening between them


    9. The size of it took their breath away and they wondered in awe how the craftsmen had managed to get the stone slabs stacked on top of each other without toppling over; a marvel in construction indeed


    10. The floor was made of light grey marble slabs polished to a high smoothness

    11. of square slabs of rock neatly lain on the cavern floor


    12. Solid slabs of limestone, ten feet thick at the base rising at a slope out of the ground and then straightening and shooting straight up to sixty feet above their heads


    13. He could see where slabs from the castellations had dislodged and fallen like dead soldiers in the surrounding field


    14. She was barely able to focus on staying upright, on remaining by his side in the labyrinth of stagnant pools and slimy slabs of stone


    15. Gareth's heels clicked on the stone slabs as he confidently strode towards the opening of the courtyard


    16. Furthermore, ashes can be worked into glass, concrete stones or slabs for decorating the garden, necklaces and even time capsules


    17. The next obvious place to look was the stone floor, which consisted of slabs measuring about a foot square


    18. I removed one of the stone slabs on the stairway leading down to the cellar and dug out a recess large enough to hide the box in


    19. walls and ceiling of cold slabs adorned by chains of linked iron


    20. been constructed decades before with slabs of grey brick, and

    21. slabs of the tower’s external wall, draped in parts with rusted


    22. There were old slabs of plyboard, chipboard and plasti-


    23. While he spoke, Simon heard someone groan and, a moment later, Johan staggered to his feet, taking several faltering steps towards Annyeke who continued to lie across the Library’s broken stone slabs without moving


    24. Their journey took them through another, smaller, greeting room, this one paved with marble slabs and with carvings at each corner— a fox, an owl, a horseman, and a lone man standing


    25. He could see white slabs, large and plain


    26. She saw that the two men had piled big, heavy slabs of broken stone over the dungeon entrance


    27. He felt certain they were pulling away the slabs of stone that had been piled on top of the entrance to prevent Theo and Mary going down to rescue the others


    28. Louella too stared at it as I lifted the three pink slabs, carrying them to the secure spot by the cedar and rolled the wheel with the broken axle off the main path


    29. At first his dreams had been pleasant; he was marching back through the ‘Pillars of the Righteous,’ the great stone slabs that mark the entrance way into his Gods rift


    30. The dead priest’s contorted face was turned upwards; his death appeared recent and the scratch marks made by his finger nails in the sandstone slabs showed the terror that he had experienced in his final moments to get away

    31. He helped pull her up from the ground as she fell to the cold slabs of the floor on her arrival, he extending his arm and smiled, revealing his yellow teeth


    32. When finally sliced with accompanying saucy expletives it rendered slabs of crumbling matter the consistency of dried cow manure


    33. There were massive coils mounted under the ceiling on slabs of marble, switches with sturdy handles on the wall, knobs to turn and sliders to slide, but no instructions as to their purpose


    34. iron and slabs of lead to demonstrate the world rested on


    35. fused green glass slabs where the rocks and the sand melted


    36. We climbed into overalls and sorted out a few tools before breakfasting on slabs of bread and cheese, washed down with chlorine-free rainwater from the tank


    37. CC wheeled in a chromium tea trolley and handed out straws and lines of what was obviously coke, on slabs of black glass


    38. They scaled the cliff and found large, flat sun-warmed slabs of granite on which to lie, barely suppressing giggles of nervous relief


    39. There was no longer any trace of the wooden rails and holding pens, but on one of his early exploratory hikes in the area, Jarek had discovered that the dip itself, a concrete-sided hole three metres deep, ten long and two wide had never been filled in, only covered with concrete slabs, and apparently forgotten


    40. The reinforced concrete slabs that covered it were about forty centimetres wide and just over two metres long

    41. ’ Tears were streaming and he turned away to begin carving his mate into slabs of meat ready for roasting, while apologising for his weakness


    42. He felt it in his chest as if two large slabs pushed against both sides of his ribs


    43. Pon was confused, he stayed round the back of the temple and looked around at the burial slabs strewn around the grounds


    44. A broad expanse of cracked, grass-grown slabs led up to it, flanked by fallen columns, and before it stood a massive altar


    45. The courtyard was paved light pale grey marble slabs


    46. I walked between two rows of taxis waiting for fares, counting the paving slabs in front of me


    47. Lifting up several of the large slabs of stone that cover the floor he pulls Alexander Finda's body out of a deep hole


    48. the bullets bounced off the thick slabs of metal on their bodies, and the beast kicked with iron clasped feet and knocked them over


    49. Pieces of the brown lining on the wall had been peeled away by erosions and explosions to reveal slabs of grey metal beneath


    50. In the manor house, which was paved with tomblike slabs, the sun was never seen














































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    Synonyms for "slab"

    slab block chunk cube brick section cake hunk

    "slab" definitions

    block consisting of a thick piece of something