slab

Along the Beagle Channel, an icy stretch of water at the southern tip of the Americas, a concrete slab rises from hills covered in low, brownish scrub.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

A new seismic analysis of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath northern Oregon suggests the subducting slab lies closer to the surface than scientists previously believed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The golden slab loses a few crumbs over the tablecloth when cut and grabbed.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It looked to me like a slab of meat in a butcher’s case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

From there, he sighted the advantage he needed: midway down from the mill walls, where the field began to flatten out, a purple granite slab shouldered out of the ground.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

My grandmother’s baked spaghetti came in slabs, which was part of its charm.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Rather than forming one unbroken sheet, Arctic sea ice is divided into separate slabs known as floes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ferguson travelled to her father's address in a taxi with slabs and claimed she was helping in him with his garden, the West Midlands force added.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

He already had prepared two big slabs of skillet bread—just flour mixed with water.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

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

Around the slabbed tables the tangle of wined breaths and grumbling gorges.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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

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

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

Such a road can be very easily and cheaply built by bringing in a portable sawmill and slabbing the material on two sides to the desired face.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

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