Sentence examples for made of slate from inspiring English sources

Roofs are generally made of slate tiles or corrugated iron sheets.

The older gravestones are made of slate, brownstone, and marble, and the designs on them — death's-heads, angels, hourglasses, hands pointing upward, recumbent lambs, anchors, lilies, weeping willows, and roses on broken stems — are beautifully carved.

Mr. Powell's work was also marked by the use of atypical materials like metal and stone — his tabletops were often made of slate — and by the incorporation of found objects he acquired on his frequent travels.

Inside are the latest amenities: Sub Zero refrigerators, floors made of slate from Shanghai, and Cypress hardwood imported from South America, a Viking wine cooler kept at 55 degrees.

The slate in the roof may be recycled, but with so many solar panels, skylights, sun tunnels and windows in it and on it, there's no good reason for its being made of slate at all.

The roof is made of slate.

I don't know what to make of Slate.com's new women-writing-on-politics blog, The XX Factor ("Slate's no-boys-allowed political blog!").

It's not quite right to say you enter the museum from the baroque courthouse; you descend from it, out of the brightness and down into the dark by means of a deep, windowless staircase made of grey slate and illuminated with hazy zigzags of light.

A revitalisation has occurred here, anchored by the new Biblioteca España (Library of Spain), an artistic, three-part, irregular structure made of black slate that would likely be the pride of any community, never mind this far-flung, long-suffering neighbourhood.

Architects Peter O'Shea and Robert Winstead worked to mount a two-sided wall made of Buckingham slate outside of Charlottesville's City Hall that measures about 54 feet long and 7.5 feet high.

Also, the areas leading into the elevators have clear panels in the floor, and the main staircase is also constructed partly of transparent materials, with the steps made of gray slate.