Sentence examples for a flat slab from inspiring English sources

"Sea ice is very inhomogeneous it's not like a flat slab," says Dr Storvold.

Now the heavy door of the restaurant opens, releasing a flat slab of light.

Hey! On the uphill side, a flat slab of rock lay on top of large uprights.

Here is a flat slab of chocolate cake ($6), haunted by a flavor somewhere between anise and eucalyptus, like the most delicious cough syrup you've ever had.

The atrium was dominated by a two-story rock-climbing wall -- a flat slab punctuated with multicolored protuberances of varying sizes.

So a flat slab of such a material would send all the rays originating from a single point back to a mirror-image point on the other side of the slab.

In the particular case of a flat slab-column connection, this solution can provide slabs with an increased load capacity and deformation capacity, allowing a potential reduction of reinforcement.

One part of the landscape, however, has three drum-shaped stone stools and a stone table with a flat-slab top.

A cinder-block cube with a flat-slab roof, the storm house stood ten feet from the back door of their home, practically beneath the kitchen window; the constant sight of it was either grim or comforting, depending on one's world view.

From geophysical data, it coincides with an intermediate zone between a flat-slab subduction zone to the north and a normal subduction zone to the south.

This tectonic evolution is coherent with the existence of a flat-slab subducting beneath the Central Andes (22° 26° S) during early Cenozoic, that will also produce the eastward migrating of the compressional regime in the upper plate since Late Cretaceous.