Sentence examples for metal slabs from inspiring English sources

The inspection found that several gusset plates — metal slabs used to reinforce bridge joints — had bent one-quarter of an inch out of shape.

As we both turned over and over on the bare metal slabs that served as our beds, he said something memorable, that to me provides the perfect answer to your relentlessly middle-seeking blog.

Designed by the Australian architectural firm of Denton Corker Marshall, it is meant to look as if it is partly sunk into the ground, with a roof of pewter-colored metal slabs planted with turf.

A series of rusted metal slabs amid reflecting pools in a corner of Mexico City's biggest park, the memorial now stands as an accidental metaphor for the fog and doubts that swirl around the country's layered debates on violence and victimhood.

It is not just that so many of Hepworth's sculptures were made to be displayed outdoors, especially the big metal slabs with their curious guano-streaked texture that you see in British parks, or the reclining quasi-human forms outside our public buildings, or even the enormous string-winged figure nailed to the side of John Lewis on Oxford Street, London that speaks so emphatically of the 60s.

This technique has the benefit of producing long-sized lotus-type porous metal slabs as long as 700 mm.

Some sleep on a metal slab between two carriages; other stay awake clinging to metal handholds.

The Modern Efficiency Desk, a metal slab topping file drawers, a set on each side, was invented by the Metal Office Furniture Company (now Steelcase), in 1915.

The second: a giant metal slab, sent crashing from high orbit into a major geological fault line, releasing a tsunami that drowns the world's coastlines.

There is a curiously moving photograph of Igor Stravinsky kneeling at Sibelius's grave, a horizontal metal slab on the grounds at Ainola.

Outside Village 247 restaurant on Smith Street in Brooklyn, a bench forms a picture of an American flag with wooden slats for stripes and a metal slab with the bas-relief of 50 stars.