Slab Sentence Examples

She decided on a big slab of meat.

A back door opened off the kitchen and she descended the rock slab steps to the yard.

Bordeaux lead the horse out of the ravine and behind a slab of rock.

Each spirit, as it quits its nanja or natural haunt to enter the mother, drops a churinga, a slab of stone or wood marked with the child's totem and containing its spirit attributes.

Take this great slab of modern day psychedelia fo example.

Each cell is of suitable dimensions to turn out a slab of sugar about 14 in.

The cables, in the exact lengths required, were simply unrolled from drums onto cable mats on the floor slab.

While this is reassuring as you move from one slab to the next, it does mean there are few deals to be had.

In the South Kensington Museum is a fragment of such a tablet or slab; the figure, a portion of which remains, could not have been less than about 14 in.

The sepulchral chambers are separated by a short passage, and are cut off from the gallery by stone doors made of a single slab which can be moved up and down by levers, like a portcullis.

Climb into the roof where the veins finish at the upstream end and scrabble up a slab into a rift.

The store has secant pile walls to the perimeter of the basement, with an insitu reinforced concrete frame to the ground slab.

The Volunteer Fire Station, consists of a concrete slab sectional garage set back off the main road running through the town.

This slab shows a scene from the siege of a city.

A particularly dangerous form is slab avalanche, formed by wind packing.

Modern slab floor with a tile surround; exposed masonry with deeply splayed apertures.

Continue up the inverted " V " slab, step right and climb the steepening wall with the aid of two pegs.

Climb the center of the steepening slab with a delicate move across a diagonal crack to gain the center of a diagonal flake line.

Illustration 6 is the swastika pattern from a grave slab at Meigle in Perthshire.

Salmon Teriyaki Salad A slab of grilled salmon steak in teriyaki sauce on a bed of mixed salad served with wasabi mayo.

Instead of a single slab that can easily fracture during shipping, most tables are made of three oversized slabs fitted together with a wood backing glued to one side.

Sometimes they look like pillows with a slab of wood or metal across the top.

The Log Furniture Directory provides free plans and instructions for log furniture including a log and slab china cabinet, tables and picture frames.

Free plans for making a gorgeous slab bench seat are provided on Extreme How To.

Keep the cabinets sleek with slab or shaker door styles.

After working a few guest stints on soap operas like Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light Bacon landed a role in the Broadway production Slab Boys, a production that also starred yet-to-be-discovered actors Sean Penn and Val Kilmer.

A short time after his performance in Slab Boys, his big break came when he starred in the 1982 production Diner.

However if you have moisture in the concrete slab, or sub floor, you will need a moisture abatement plan.

This can create considerable additional expense, especially if you have to rent equipment to excavate or pour a concrete slab foundation as opposed to gravel.

Shower surrounds, tile, even stone slab walls, so why is tile the right choice?

Other minerals in varying quantities help to give each slab of granite a completely unique look by introducing different colors, veins and spots.

If you're shopping around for price, and find a stone that sells for more elsewhere, be sure to check for several things to test the quality of the slab.

Edge details, sink and stove cut outs and installation can make the cost of a slab skyrocket.

This means that a true, blue piece of stone will cost more than a slab from the same quarry that is more gray or white in color.

Granite is a natural material, which means that each slab will have a slightly different mineral make up.

In addition, the formation process may vary from slab to slab, making some stones weaker or stronger than others.

Mesh is applied with a fiberglass resin which strengthens the slab from behind.

You can check for this resin by viewing a slab in bright light from several angles; the presence of a dull spot indicates fill.

To check for the presence of sealer, look at the unfinished edges of the slab.

Drip marks, or "wet" areas indicate the presence of topical sealer, making this the slab you want.

Not all counters in one genre are created equally, so you should compare kitchen countertops using apples to apples and discuss specific slab choices with your fabricator.

In fact, if you've worked with concrete before, whether you've built a slab or a step, you can create your own counter as well.

The resulting liquid is poured into large sheets, which harden into slab counters.

Created stone is also uniform in color from one end to the next, and from one slab to the next.

Quality Granite Designers in Nutley, NJ specialize in stone slab countertops of all types and are both licensed and insured.

Additionally, granite tile counters are lighter and less expensive than slabs, making them more affordable and accessible than slab counters.

With a little time and effort, you can have a granite tile countertop that rivals the look of a slab for a fraction of the cost.

If you are using a DIY sunroom kit, they are not as energy efficient as sunrooms built by professionals, so improve your efficiency by building on a slab foundation with at least one brick wall as a support.

For more solid, slab countertops, however, you can expect to pay approximately $100 a foot for the material installed.

This test uses an electric field applied across a slab of gel-like material.

It's less expensive for the builder to build a home with a crawl space than it is for them to build a foundation on a concrete slab.

Use this one when you're needing a 10-pound slab of wax.

During all those summer days spent meandering down the sidewalks and perusing small shops, your feet will thank you for offering a bit more support than a skinny little heel or a slab of foam rubber.

You can also purchase what are called "slab" molds, which are best suited for hot or cold process soap making.

Once you've mixed your soap base, you pour the batch into the slab mold and insert the dividers that separate the soap into bar-shaped sections.

Then you just need to cut the soap slab into individual bars.

And with good reason--it sounds incredibly uncomfortable, due to the fact that there was a hard slab of material front and center of the corset to entice the body to take on the S-shape.

Steak entrees steal the show here, including a slab of slow roasted prime rib, a center cut porterhouse and a bone-in ribeye.

In each case the arched tomb was formed by an oblong chest, either hollowed out of the rock, or built of masonry, and closed with a horizontal slab.

A plain slab still marks the place of his tomb, before the high altar; but his bones were scattered by the Huguenots in 1562.

The glass is, however, by no means ready for delivery, since it has yet to be examined with scrupulous care, and all defective pieces must be rejected entirely or at least the defective part must be cut out and the slab remoulded or ground down to a smaller size.

The mass of glass is rolled on a polished slab of iron, the " marvor," to solidify it, and it is then slightly hollowed by blowing.

The whole pot, with its contents of viscous glass, is then removed bodily from the furnace by means of huge tongs and is transported to a crane, which grips the pot, raises it, and ultimately tips it over so as to pour the glass upon the slab of the rolling-table.

The rolled sheet is left on the castingtable until it has set sufficiently to be pushed over a flat iron plate without risk of distortion; meanwhile the table has been placed in front of the opening of one of the large annealing kilns and the slab of glass is carefully pushed into the kiln.

This entire process must, obviously, be applied in turn to each of the two surfaces of the slab of glass.

Among objects used are a pool of ink in the hand (Egypt), the liver of an animal (tribes of the North-West Indian frontier), a hole filled with water (Polynesia), quartz crystals (the Apaches and the Euahlayi tribe of New South Wales), a smooth slab of polished black stone (the Huille-che of South America), water in a vessel (Zulus and Siberians), a crystal (the Incas), a mirror (classical Greece and the middle ages), the finger-nail, a swordblade, a ring-stone, a glass of sherry, in fact almost anything.

In the Roman Catholic Church, which preserves in this respect the tradition that had become established during the middle ages, the component parts of a fixed altar in the liturgical sense are the table (mensa), or super-altar, consisting of a stone slab; the support (stipes), consisting either of a solid mass or of four or more columns; the sepulchrum, or altar-cavity, a small chamber for the reception of the relics of martyrs.

On this occasion a stone altar, consisting of a flat slab resting upon three other upright slabs, was presented to the parish, and was set up in the church at the east wall of the chancel.

Thus the one point of weakness in the concrete slab is overcome by the addition of steel in its simplest form, and both materials are used to their best advantage.

But in a thin slab, with its comparatively small span and light load, the concrete is generally strong enough to bear the shearing stresses unaided, and the reinforcement is devoted to assisting it where the tensile stresses occur.

In the Matrai system thin wires are used instead of rods, and are securely fastened to rolled steel joists, which form the beams on which the slabs rest; moreover, the wires instead of being stretched tight from side to side of the slab are allowed to sag as much as the thickness of the concrete will allow.

The construction of the Via Venti Settembre gave occasion for the discovery of a number of tombs, 85 in all, the bulk of which dated from the end of the 5th and the 4th centuries B.C. The bodies had in all cases been cremated, and were buried in small shaft graves, the interment itself being covered by a slab of limestone.

The pulpit is supported on fifteen columns, which rest on a slab of white marble.

The axe was at the close of the prehistoric age a square slab of copper (7) with one sharp edge; small projecting tails then appeared at each end of the back (8), and increased until the long tail for lashing on to the handle is more than half the length of the axe in an iron one of Roman (?) age (13).

Among these are a Roman slab, carved with figures of a horseman trampling upon an enemy, several fine tombs and stones of the 13th and 14th centuries, the frith or fridstool of stone, believed to be the original bishop's throne, and the fine Perpendicular roodscreen of oak, retaining its loft.

The stone slab which bears the inscription is 71ft.

He lies buried beneath a plain slab in the magnificent mausoleum which he had reared at Sikandra, near his capital of Agra.

Indeed there is hardly a village in India which cannot boast of a shrine dedicated to Siva, and containing the emblem of his reproductive power; for almost the only form in which the" Great God "is adored is the Linga, consisting usually of an upright cylindrical block of marble or other stone, mostly resting on a circular perforated slab.

His tomb is to be recognized at Isfahan by the words Cy git Rodolphe on a long wide slab.

A statue of the poet Esaias Tegner stands in the Tegners Plads, and the house in which he lived from 1813 to 1826 is indicated by an inscribed stone slab.

The site of the Black Hole is now covered with a black marble slab, and the incident is commemorated by a monument erected by Lord Curzon in 1902.

One such was discovered in the Gezer excavations, dating about 200 B.C. It was a slab of polished limestone about 6 in.

It is also advisable when growing in rockwool slab culture to flush the salt out every 2 weeks with pH adjusted plain water.

The only window has a deeply splayed aperture, the sloping sill utilizing a cross slab; a modern lintel.

All at once the snow shattered into a hard slab avalanche.

The starter of Yorkshire pudding, a great slab of gorgeous golden batter soaked in gravy would set me up on its own.

There, a memorial slab in the floor has a cross in the middle and an inscription carved around the outside.

I looked back to see the cenotaph once more, and by now the stone man was fully visible on the slab.

The point of maximum convexity is a frequent site of tension fracture, with release of slab avalanches.

The plants are propagated in a rockwool cube then grown on in a rockwool slab.

This easy angled slab (for a scramble) only has small holds and can feel a bit delicate at times.

Initially the bottom slab and webs including the diaphragms were cast, with the top slab cast in a second stage.

A slab foundation would normally be used where a solid floor is required instead of pine floorboards.

It was, however, not a ridge climb but a great forerunner of the Slab and Wall Period.

Right at the Junction leads via a squeeze past a fallen slab to a finely decorated grotto.

They came with the ubiquitous huge slab of nutty, fruity loaf.

All the climbs start from the very base of the slab and require dead low tide.

For a slab path, then add 50 mm (2 ") of sharp sand, firmed and leveled, before laying slabs.

Initial runs with a " slab " (thermodynamic ocean) version will help prioritize parameter perturbations.

So, when the wall moves, the slab must move with it, along with all the underground oil piping.

Having regard to circles wherein sacrificial rites were observed, a slab of stone was a conspicuous object in that dread ceremonial.

Start on a flat boulder at the base of the slab, step left off this and climb a shallow runnel to a ledge.

In the corner of the lower slab is a rather shapeless hinge socket, indicating that the gate hinge also was not well formed.

The parapet at the apex carries an inscribed slab stating ' The Reverend John Adams Minister 1732 ' .

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Threshold stone at door is weathered 18thC grave slab with flags just inside; then 8 concrete steps up to interior.

Also imagine a badly fitted paving slab in the pavement immediately outside its front door.

Below a Purbeck marble slab are carved figures of her ten children in the costume of the period.

The thin sandstone slab standing on end is unlikely to be an original part of the circle.

A maximum total wall convergence of 70 mm was allowed at slab soffit level.

A view of another section of the museum showing a carved stele (upright slab) and various pieces of Egyptian sculpture.

Finally there is a vertical stone slab stile in the southwest.

Homes with a basement or slab foundations can benefit from the installation of a soil suction system.

The fractured tibia was temporarily immobilized in a below knee back slab.

How to cook any kind of firm tofu 1 slab of firm tofu, drained.

The site of the tomb is marked by a stone slab, with the inscription Carlo Magno, and above it hangs the famous bronze chandelier presented by the emperor Frederick I.

The split cylinder is passed to the flattening furnace, where it is exposed to a red heat, sufficient to soften the glass; when soft the cylinder is laid upon a smooth flat slab and flattened down upon it by the careful application of pressure with some form of rubbing implement, which frequently takes the form of a block of charred wood.

The " gatherer " gathers the glass from the tank furnace on the end of the blowing-iron, rolls it on a slab of iron or stone, slightly expands the glass by blowing, and hands the blowing iron and glass to the " blower."

He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out!" in such a terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror.

There are several different types of moisture tests that a general contractor can perform to determine how much moisture is in the slab and the air.

Settling Kiera on a grey slab bench, the first man straightened and motioned the other over.

At least somebody else would get the distasteful task of telling a wailing Mrs. Wassermann one of her bouncing baby boys was stretched out on a marble slab in Norfolk, Virginia.

He has to be out there, caught in the seaweed at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, with the fish and crabs having a party, getting as bloated as the fat Wassermann twin lying on the slab at the Norfolk morgue.

At the front is a large slab, sometimes carved, with a small aperture in it, through which offerings might be inserted.

The enclosing slab very often bears one or more Christian symbols, such as the FIG.

The casting-table usually consists of a perfectly smooth cast-iron slab, frequently built up of a number of pieces carefully fitted together, mounted upon a low, massive truck running upon rails, so that it can be readily moved to any desired position in the casting-room.

On a marble slab that once adorned the public baths at Comum, his distinctions were recorded in a long inscription, which was afterwards removed to Milan.

In the Roman period a larger stone was used, with a rectangular slab (96) sliding on it, in which a long trough held the grain and let it slip out below for grinding.

A marble slab marks the former resting-place of William the Conqueror.

At the end of the Gardens is the rocky mass of Toprak Kale, on which was a fire temple and altar; near it is the Meker Kapusi ("Door of Mithridates"), a large inscribed slab of rock with the names of several deities.

A second vibrating composition roller conveys the ink from this drum to the distributing table or ink slab, on which other rollers, called distributors, still further thin out the ink.

Close to the large cylinders are the inking rollers, which take the necessary amount of ink, each set from its own slab as it passes under, and these rollers convey the requisite ink to the printing surface as the forme-carriage runs under its own cylinder.

When her attention was drawn to a marble slab inscribed with the name FLORENCE in relief, she dropped upon the ground as though looking for something, then turned to me with a face full of trouble, and asked, "Were is poor little Florence?"

The ceiling above us was divided with half the room beneath a concrete slab and the remainder under what appeared as thick planking, well out of reach to either of us.

The room was vacant except for a metal slab that served as a bed and the six-legged, cat-like creature sitting on the edge of the bed watching its sleeping occupant.

A flicker of light, and the clothing appeared on a slate grey slab serving as a bench near the door.

The famous Venetian pozzi, or wells for storing rain-water from the roofs and streets, consisted of a closed basin with a water-tight stratum of clay at the bottom, upon which a slab of stone was laid; a brick shaft of radiating bricks laid in a permeable jointing material of clay and sand was then built.

The altar is a board on four wooden pillars having upon it a small slab (tabut) of alabaster, marble, or shittim wood, which forms its essential part.

He rose and, taking the arm of the attendant, steered the young man out to the slab where Wassermann was unaware of the turmoil he'd created.