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Example sentences for: slats

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But yuppies--or at least the suburbanized offspring of Slats Grobnik--were increasingly his audience and his newsroom colleagues.
As near as we could figure, it seemed she had tried to climb onto our couch, our 2-year-old son had pushed her over, and her arm had got caught in the slats.
Of course, Uncle Chester, along with Slats Grobnik and Aunt Wanda, didn't really exist.
This decent elegant fellow human beingWas seated in virtue, character, disability,Behind her the order of the ranged bookshelves,The windows monitored by Venetian blinds--"These can be raised or lowered; numerous slats,Horizontally arranged, and parallel,Which can be tilted so as to admitPrecisely the desired light or air."
It seems like everyone I knew who read his column--and that's nearly everyone I knew growing up, even in the suburbs--understood that Slats and others were inventions.