slab

A rescuer puts his ear to a hole they've just managed to drill through a concrete slab.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

An eye-witness account of a wild-yet-delightful military tradition: Every summer since the mid-1900s, Naval Academy students have climbed a grease-covered 21-foot slab of granite.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

What looked like a jumbo Parmesan wheel resting on a marble slab by the door of the Moroccan-style hammam was actually a block of shea-butter soap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

That began with the shocked roar that met Rush’s first number, 1977’s “Xanadu,” a chugging slab of custom-van-tested shag splendor, akin to kicking off a trick show with the most dangerous stunt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

On our small slab porch stood Abby Standridge, dressed like a carpenter, hair as big as an azalea bush, and holding two fishing poles.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

He managed to survive in the shielded void, a life-saving scenario that occasionally unfolds as multistory structures tumble pancake-style, support beams buckle and slabs of concrete crash down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Two diggers, as well as a crane that was lifting up concrete slabs was also there.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Frankie had ordered honey cake, but the dessert the waiter brought looked nothing like the dense golden-brown slabs of lekach baked for the new year.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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 floor is slabbed with rich mosaics that are pleasing to the eye.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène

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

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 Knapp, Frederick Malcolm

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 Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

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 Richardson, Henry Handel

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

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