Sentences with phrase «like slab»

The iPhone 6 is flat and thin, like a slab.

It's like a slab of whale skin.»

I disliked it because — and this is the honest truth — I love me some Final Fantasy characters, and I honestly believe the fans deserve better than some quite frankly genre-less game - like slab - blob of computer programming and nifty CG.

It escapes the predictable tablet - like slab, offering a funky, but seriously considered, design.

Now it seems like the slab manufactured by Asus, is going the Galaxy S3 way and will make users wait before landing at their doorsteps.

Unlike the plastic wafer feel of traditional e-readers, the Nook Color feels like the slab of aluminum and glass that it is.

The new device feels like a slab of metal with a black and white screen on the front.

Cranberry Sauce The can shaped, jelly - like slab of cranberry sauce might be the version of this dish that has always graced your table, but with a little effort on your part, you can make a tasty and healthy cranberry sauce that your guests look forward to.

Would you like a slab of pie... maybe with some homemade ice cream?

Later processes, like slab break - off and associated uplift of the Central Iranian plateau, may have modified the structure.

I am in love with veggie steaks — i.e. cauliflower or cabbage sliced into large steak - like slabs.

Depending on the concentration of oxygen atoms, the chain - like slabs were two, three, or four layers thick, sometimes varying within the same material.

The scanning transmission electron micrograph shows that the atomic structure was alternately arranged in the three - layer and the zig - zag two - layer thick chain - like slabs, showing quasi-1D metallic conductivity in the former.

Their structure is deceptively firm, like slabs of slate in a natural stone wall.

But while their colour evokes the grain and knotty permanence of the wood they represent, their clustered strips, their texture and translucency make of them something almost edible and transient, like slabs of toffee.

Only, its right side extends elegantly outward from the wall like the thick spine of a three - ring binder, revealing bolt - like slabs of painted wood screwed into the interior structure.

The really nasty firms, firms whose partners would break down crying in meetings with me, who would ring me with tales of despicable behaviour on the part of other partners, tales of callous, mean - spirited, vile, arrogant and spiteful individuals, have gone out of business ignominiously, for the most part, collapsing like slabs of rotting meat sloughing off the side of a dead horse.

Not exact matches

At high speed, the slab - sided G - Wagon catches wind like a sail — making it alarmingly unstable and a bit unnerving to drive.

The two - storey Landscape House — a flat, looping figure - eight form — will be constructed by an industrial - scaled printer using sand and a binding agent to create marble - like six - by - nine - foot slabs for floor and ceiling.

For chefs like Choquette, classically trained to revere long - reduced sauces and well - marbled slabs of meat, the excitement to be found in celeriac can make it as inspiring as sirloin.

My first batch came out a little too hard, so they are more like a hard candy shell with a firm, caramel center; and I ended up having to break the slab with a mallet.

There's nothing like an old - fashioned Italian dinner with the family that consists of ridiculously sized slabs of breaded chicken and a big bowl of pasta.

My pork shoulder was more like 2 1/2 pounds when I started, so I trimmed away a pound of it, including a big slab of fat, and made the rest into breakfast sausage for later.

But... it presented as a round slab of shiny chocolate (sort of like baked fudged!)

I felt like I needed a photo finish with a big marble slab, chef's hat, and metal spatula -LCB- like the commercials -RCB-.

Use the back of a spoon or a spatula to spread the mixture into a large slab as thin as desired (I like to make it quite thin).

The Bread: Slabs of chewy, open - crumbed breads like sourdough or miche are ideal for hearty toppings (think ricotta, kale, and «shrooms), while thin slices of dense, dark, grainy loaves (like those indestructible «health» breads) work best with high - impact, low - profile adornments like radish slivers and trout roe.

Carefully turn the mallow slab onto a snow sugar dusted board, and using a very sharp knife, cut into squares; they can be as large or small as you like, I tend to cut into 36 pieces.

The dough is rolled out into a rectangular slab and a thin layer of jam (or nutella, or cinnamon sugar, or any filling you like) is spread across the surface.

Slab Pie — it's like a regular pie, except it's bigger and better.

When Snyder mentions to Samuels at lunch — Dreamland Barbeque, where only slabs of ribs and white bread are served, with no utensils, eight paper napkins per guest — that Washington is a party town, Samuels says he's a country boy and that during the week he likes to get his work in and go to bed.

The Wankel rotor, which takes the place of the piston in a reciprocal engine, is a thick, three - cornered slab of machined metal shaped rather like a Valentine's Day heart except that all three of its sides are identical.

But a mattress that tilts too far in the other direction can feel like a concrete slab to a back sleeper — this puts too much pressure on your back and shoulders, so you wake up with aches in the a.m..

Eating little squares of seaweed is kind of like enjoying sushi, only without the rice and slabs of raw protein.

The outcome of Brexit will be decided by these factors, which act like great slabs of reality closing in on Downing Street.

Given the right kind of manipulation, a smooth surface can be made to mimic the feel of a range of materials, and a solid slab can be made to feel like shifting sand.

IF YOU like a tasty slab of meat, make sure you place your orders soon.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate further.

Weirder still, if the slab of semiconductor is made very pure and cold, then the electrons can gang up to act like «quasiparticles» with fractional charges — say, 1/3 of an electron's charge — adding more steps to the Hall - voltage stairway.

Above the 670, the mantle churned slowly like a very shallow pot of boiling water, delivering heat and rock at mid-ocean ridges to make new crust and cool the interior and accepting cold sinking slabs of old plate at deep - sea trenches.

The scientists make their way downfield past wood from South Africa, past 5,000 - year - old bristlecone pine, pale with spidery whorls, past giant sequoia, its slabs like the paws of defensive tackles.

The British Antarctic Survey vessel R.R.S. Bransfield was anchored off an 800 - foot - thick frozen slab called the Brunt ice shelf when two passengers noticed some odd brown ball - like creatures floating by.

First, they built a gyroid structure — a mesmerizing 3D pattern that looks like a system of interlocking spiral staircases — by carefully drilling holes through a stack of plastic slabs.

The place doesn't look like much, just a circular pile of slab - shaped rocks weighing about 50 pounds each.

«Adding salt to an ice slab would be like adding little weights to it because salt is denser than ice,» Johnson said.

Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.

In Elbert County, you'll find granite slabs erected in 1980 by an anonymous pious patriot, engraved with instructions for starting over, like «seeking harmony with the infinite.»

Although Toronto's location on Lake Ontario gives it one of Canada's balmier climates, the surrounding area can seem like one big ice slab in winter.

All the indications are that thin - disc laser systems will soon displace their older rivals, which employ rod - or slab - like crystals.

As the slab plunges yet deeper, dehydration reactions release water, which at such great pressure and temperature exists as a supercritical fluid that can drift through materials like a gas and dissolve them like a fluid.