Sentence examples for moving slabs from inspiring English sources

He has rigged up a pulley system to clear the debris, moving slabs of concrete and twisted metal into a sewage-filled pit nearby, hoping to sell the material.Israel has blockaded Gaza since 2007, when Hamas, the Palestinians' Islamist movement, took over after winning an election and violently forcing out its rival, the nationalist Fatah group.

Earthquakes start when two of the Earth's tectonic plates – the huge, moving slabs of land that carry the continents – move around each other.

In plate tectonics, moving slabs in the crust and upper mantle cool the mantle via convection, an efficient way of cooling in which hot buoyant material rises, cools off, and sinks again in a circulatory pattern.

FRPPB is able to adhere and adapt to volume changes in the surrounding concrete pavement, and conforms to settled or moving concrete slabs without any crack development.

JIEGU, China — The Buddhist monks stood atop the jagged remains of a vocational school, struggling to move concrete slabs with pickax shovels and bare hands.

Rescue equipment and heavy machinery still hadn't reached the village, so Supriyadi and his colleagues had to dig through the ruins by hand, working together to move heavy slabs of stone and concrete.

Rescue equipment and heavy machinery still hadn't reached the village, so Dedi and his colleagues had to dig through the ruins by hand, working together to move heavy slabs of stone and concrete.

Just switch the placement of the slabs, moving the one closest to the coals or burner farther away while moving the one that was far away closer.[12].[12]

It took five men more than thirty minutes to move the slab.

Each time we moved a slab of concrete, we found a stack of bodies," he said.

"Each time we moved a slab of concrete, we found a stack of bodies".