Sentence examples for slabs of granite from inspiring English sources

The other day, workers were affixing slabs of granite to the walls.

Some buildings were only frames, with slabs of granite piled to the side and pulleys covered in dirt, as if the construction crew had taken sudden flight.

After another inspector passed 600 slabs of granite at the Fredericksburg wharf, Doherty had them hauled to the graveyard, only to see Chenoweth condemn those slabs.

Five slabs of granite, shaped like wedges of Cheddar, weighing seventeen thousand pounds each, are suspended by flimsy-looking cables at acute angles.

Slabs of granite, once used for tree boxes and since unearthed (with city permission) as obstacles, are well worn from use.

It's a scramble to get down to the ledges below, warm slabs of granite held in a rough embrace by a cobalt sea.

Using slabs of granite-like polystyrene, they construct a constantly changing set of staircases, walls, temples and houses – a gamut of art and architecture, which incorporates their own bodies, too, as they allow themselves to be shaped and chiseled into sculptures.

"I was in J. P. Morgan laying on a slab of granite," Mr. Kurlowicz, 63, said.

In another pasture, John Allen has engraved a message into a narrow slab of granite laid flush with the ground.

He visits his father's grave: The small slab of granite suits my own needs fairly well, also.

The capstone on the oversized chimney was a mattress-size slab of granite that weighed more than four tons.