Sentence examples for get a slab from inspiring English sources

A big chunk of the first 25% of France Télécom to be sold, in October 1997, went to retail investors, who are eventually to get a slab of Air France too.

Get a slab of wood to use as the baseboard for your utensil holder.

01 is a popular carbon steel for blade making because it is easy to douse when hot. Try to get a slab or bar between 1/8 to ¼ inch thick.

These days people argue about it on Twitter, but at least you get a decent slab of every match.

Up in the rarified world of $500 handsets you basically get a black slab of glass whether you want it or not.

(Jimmy Bryant, a resident of the neighborhood for thirty-two years, mournfully recalls the time when the place was "a very nice restaurant, sort of a Belgian restaurant, and all the people in the neighborhood used to go there for dinner". He doesn't think the neighbors will go to Slab, unless "they get a freebie").

I get a kick out of laying paving slabs.

With a few exceptions, notably Manhattan House, Gordon Bunshaft's sleek, tidy slab at Third Avenue and 66th Street, they don't get a lot of respect.

Unsmoked bacon is often suggested as a substitute by cookery writers like Anna del Conte, on the basis that pancetta isn't widely available in this country and if you can get hold of a slab of good, dry-cured streaky bacon, and cut it into stout cubes yourself, it will work far better than the wafer thin pancetta often found in supermarkets.

"I've got a two-inch mattress on a slab of steel.

I stepped into a nearby art gallery, and the owner, William Armstrong, sent us out of the historic district, through a low-income, decidedly nonhistoric section of the city where we finally found Randy's Bar-B-Q, a stand-alone brick cube where the teenager working the takeout window had a one-phrase vocabulary: "What chu got?" A proper response is "Half-slab of ribs" ($10).