Sentence examples for to slab from inspiring English sources

The migrants, or snowbirds, come to Slab City in all manner of vehicle.

"That's the religious beach," Judy, our host in Tel Aviv, called out to me, pointing to slab concrete walls surrounding a section of prime beachfront property.

To accommodate the needs of television, the floors are widely spaced -- 27 feet, slab to slab -- to allow for the installation of intense overhead lights.

Building technology has improved: lifts are more reliable; plumbing is good; noise insulation better; steel and glass are prettier alternatives to slab concrete.Many people have come round to this idea.

Confusion arose, however, because it came to be recognized that the content of trace elements defined by the name adakite could be attributed to specific source rocks in several environments unrelated to slab melting, and interpretations of the origin of adakites changed.

(Jimmy Bryant, a resident of the neighborhood for thirty-two years, mournfully recalls the time when the place was "a very nice restaurant, sort of a Belgian restaurant, and all the people in the neighborhood used to go there for dinner". He doesn't think the neighbors will go to Slab, unless "they get a freebie").

"The 18th floor will have a slab-to-slab height of 20 feet and the 19th floor will be 15 1/2 feet high," he said.

Because the bottom of one concrete slab is the ceiling of the floor below, slab-to-slab spacing is shorter than it would be for a steel-framed structure.

As a compensatory measure, a series of modal and nonlinear static analyses are conducted by emphasizing the characteristic dynamic behavior of tunnel form buildings including impacts of wall-to-wall and wall-to-slab interaction and effects of torsion and wall-openings on the load transfer mechanism and seismic performance.

Massive hunks were swiftly downsized: from ham to steak slab to sushi sliver.

Tree rings were added to each slab to enhance the effect.