Sentence examples for in slabs of from inspiring English sources

We no longer cement ourselves in slabs of preformed religious identity.

The producers famously violated a number of road laws and paid some of the crew in slabs of beer.

The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows, and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.

Last week, Chinese and American paleontologists announced the discovery in China of a 130-million-year old fossil dinosaur in slabs of fine-grained rock.

The speech was, as my friend Jack Viertel, a theater producer, put it, "stoic, stern, crafted in slabs of granite, a slimmed-down sinewy thing entirely evolved away from the kind of Pre-Raphaelite style of his earlier oration".

The master bathroom is a glittering dreamlike quarry, with sinks carved from solid blocks of Verona limestone floating on what appear to be cushions of light, and walls clad in slabs of veined Black St. Laurent marble and honey-hued Peruvian travertine.

Then he began to beat in small slabs of cold butter, rather than the clarified butter that some recipes demand.

In "Platform," the attacks on religion are contained in unintegrated slabs of rant.

Most stirring, though, are the headstones scattered around the gallery: eight in all, slabs of varied hues bearing the text "Your Name Here" in different types of lettering.

Romeau has turned in two slabs of churning, acidic goodness, cuts that bubble and sting in otherworldly ways.

Then with surprising speed, and nary a correction, Piero daubed in the slabs of color and modeled the figures.