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Example sentences for: slab

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

Set in the floor by the central door is the large round slab of red porphyry where King Charlemagne knelt for his coronation as emperor in the year 800 (see page 20).
Just inside the woods is a pleasant picnic area beside the “natural bridge,” a massive slab of rock through which the swift waters of the Kicking Horse River have forced a channel.
The tobacco bill, declared dead by Trent Lott just the other day, is still twitching on the slab.
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.
It pulls a couple of amusing tricks with its narrative (the second act doesn't come until after the fourth, whereupon everything starts to--sort of--make sense), but this kind of flimsy romantic confection is either utterly charming or it collapses into a heavy slab of obviousness.