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slat

[slat] / slæt /


NOUN
board
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Antonyms
NOUN
splint
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We love the island vibe and have added some cherrywood slat doors.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

They hand-scrub every little slat of the blinds.

From Seattle Times Jun. 23, 2023

Season 3 ends with a small portion of its people reunited in a grandly staged gathering that holds the spiritual punch of bolting one more slat into place along that franchise bridge.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2023

He delivered his trip safety briefings at the escape hatch, a slat of wood that was lighter than a door.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2019

I set my bags on a wooden slat bench on the platform and was ready to walk to a drugstore on Carrollton Avenue to pick something up when I saw her.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

A robot slurry scraper travels up and down the cowshed at regular intervals, pushing any manure through the slatted floor into the vast storage pit below.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

Through the slatted wall, volunteers provide them with clothes, medical supplies and snacks — even free WiFi and an electrical strip to charge their phones.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2024

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

For a little extra oomph, take the same slatted headboard concept as seen above but make it rainbow!

From Salon Jul. 25, 2022

The slatted steel grille rattled down thunderously and slammed on the sidewalk.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The second race petered out in a slatting calm.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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




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