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

That study also found evidence that the slab was shallower offshore than earlier estimates suggested.

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

I missed genuine Italian markets — the kind where they carve a slab of Parmesan out of a freshly cut wheel and offer you a piece to taste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

A wood slab of a desk was also covered in the same array of junk.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Concrete slabs between the homes had started to crack or buckle, with some of the fissures running all the way up to or under the homes’ walls, the news outlet reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Firefighters finally managed to reach her via a tunnel they dug below four concrete slabs under which she had been buried.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

They took down beachside residential towers where wealthier Venezuelans from the nearby capital, Caracas, escaped for weekend getaways, and cheaply constructed low-income high-rises where Styrofoam was used as filler between cement slabs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

Numbers 3 and 4 are for slabbing or converting round logs into square timber.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

These, too far off to supply wood for firing or slabbing, still stood green and timbered, and looked down upon the havoc that had been made of the fair, pastoral lands.

From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

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