Example sentences for: slab

How can you use “slab” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Behind this hall, in the center of a stairway, is a ramp full of sculptured dragons carved from a single slab of marble weighing more than 200 tons.

  • The assaults on plausibility began in the first frames of Con Air , as Nicolas Cage's character returned home from Operation Desert Storm in a tugboat, and did not subside until Sam Neill mutated into some kind of space devil at the end of Event Horizon , whereupon his face inexplicably broke out in a crosshatched design that made him look like a slab of grilled ahi tuna.

  • My immediate cause for seasonal joy: "Year in Review" stories, particularly that classic slab of reheated journalistic hash, the list of "Top News Stories of 1998."

  • Nearby is the Shadow Stone, a slab with the outlines of a figure in meditation, said to be from the cave where Da Mo meditated so steadfastly for nine years that he left his shadow on the wall.

  • The tobacco bill, declared dead by Trent Lott just the other day, is still twitching on the slab.


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