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

But a griddle—a rectangular slab of hot steel set above gas burners—can actually be the unsung hero of the backyard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Toño is grateful also, I know, for on this slab of ancient wood, in this old and holy place, shoulders touching, I can feel my brother weeping.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Their third-floor apartment now sits at eye level, crushed under piles of concertinaed concrete slabs from the OPP 26 building in coastal Caraballeda, one of the districts hardest hit by the quakes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Some have told the BBC that they can hear people under the rubble, but cannot move the heavy slabs of concrete, and are waiting anxiously for heavy machinery to arrive.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Broken branches lay on the ground, and uprooted trees with slabs of earth still attached to their bases.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

The King slabbed it on with the enjoyment of a child messing with treacle.

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson

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

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

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

The blocks of soap should not be stripped until quite cold throughout, and they should be allowed to stand open for a while before slabbing.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons