Sentence examples for dense slab from inspiring English sources

I took out my white, dense slab of lardo.

As the dense slab collapses into the asthenosphere, however, it also may "roll back" oceanward and cause extension in the overlying plate.

Ms. Frazier is her own pastry chef, natch, and her desserts have a homey quality: a dense slab of chocolate-walnut torte, a buttery cobbler cobbled together from apples, apricots and dried cherries.

In her hands, this very strange native artifact becomes a dense slab of sweet peanut flavor supported by a thick layer of chocolate crunch and topped by a scoop of celery sorbet.

Madness, war, mechanisation; class, feminism and modernity – all these and more are interrogated in a dense slab of prose that spans the 20th century and jumps from one consciousness to another in the high old modernist style.

Cornbread pudding may have found its way onto the menu only because the restaurant is called Maize, but it deserves a long life on its own: a dense slab of comfort food, sweet but not too sweet, enlivened by cinnamon and five-spice powder.

In between the 'Oh' and the 'really' I had plenty of time to examine chipped chipboard partitions and dense slabs of MDF.

When opened at random, it offers not only dense slabs of 17th-century prose, but insane lists that seem to go on for ever, meandering digressions, whole chunks of italicised Latin.

Finally, these cold, dense slabs begin to sink, and subduction is off and running.

Beloved by programmers for the key travel and sound, these dense slabs of I/O power originally shipped with the original IBM PCs.

Only the thinner, denser slabs of oceanic crust will subduct, however.