How to Use slab in a Sentence

slab

1 of 2 noun
  • Well, first of all, your recipe makes a slab.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The slab was so steep that her cheek was up against the rock.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Stick with the larger slabs to save.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 15 May 2026
  • And those slabs of limestone around it.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Feed a crowd with this stunning fresh fruit slab pie.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Score a line across the top of the slab with your saw, knife, or ice pick.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Some of our dump cake recipes use butter in slabs on top of dry mix.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • They’re parked on slabs, and two of them are covered by full roofs.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 27 July 2023
  • How many ways could a person prepare a slab of beef?
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Fire up the grill for this gigantic slab of meat.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 June 2026
  • Game Board – large wooden board or plank, or stone slab.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • One slab was left untouched as a control.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The concrete lot with slabs of quartz and granite?
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kumari quickly diced one full onion and ground it on a stone slab.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • One side of the slab was purple; the other side was bone-white.
    — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Their ski and boot tracks were spotted leading to a small slab avalanche.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • These easy, big-batch slab pie recipes are perfect for serving a crowd.
    — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
  • Paving stones don’t have to be concrete slabs plopped down along your garden.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 22 Apr. 2026
  • On the eighth day, Qassem sat on a slab of debris, his head in his hands.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Key limes are a beloved fruit in the South, and this key lime slab pie puts them to great use.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In order to rescue that person, a crane must lift the slab.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Arrange 4 or 5 of the slabs on one side of each shallow bowl.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The shower walls and the back wall are all slab, as are the countertops.
    — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And, of course, the thick, buttery patty still comes topped with a healthy slab of brie cheese.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The cement slabs where migrants charged phones and ate meals were empty.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • On a concrete slab near his school, Pulisic went up against older boys.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 7 May 2026
  • And there's no concrete slab pinning the building to the ground.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • At the counter, Sakeena was slicing slabs of goat meat into small cubes.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Neighbors leaned on neighbors to lift heavy slabs of concrete.
    — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023

slab

2 of 2 adjective
  • Quiche can be baked as a pie, cupcakes, slab pie, or any shape that fits your plan.
    — Dallas News, 2020-09-23
  • That will not include dropping a line in the Des Plaines River, despite rumors of slab blue gill swimming there.
    — Charles Selle, chicagotribune.com, 2021-02-22
  • As for style, Blackband says to look at slab-panel cabinetry, which features a flat door over the cabinet box and lends a modern but classic look.
    — Lindsey M. Roberts Special To The Washington Post, Star Tribune, 2021-04-29
  • Given the flat sole, the Elektra is best suited to vertical and slab routes; anything very overhanging will require more of a downturn at the toe.
    — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 2020-10-29
  • Compliments about the camper rolled in at gas stations, campsites, and RV parks, where most of the vehicles are frowning, slab-sided metal boxes painted in a shade beige or gray.
    — Chris Nelson, Car and Driver, 2020-09-27
  • For example, standards might dictate that a certain percentage of the house has to be brick (vinyl is scoffed at), roofs have to have a certain pitch (definitely can’t be flat) and basements are mandatory (no more slab houses).
    — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 2019-11-25
  • Swan claims Sustenir Agriculture can convert one standard office space with a ceiling to slab clearance of three meters into an indoor farm 178 times the efficiency of an outdoor farm.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 2021-03-30

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