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• During taxi, the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.From the entry taxi
• Cal Craft accordion blind consists of random-width white slats handwoven with yellow, blue and gold yarns.1959, Upholsterer and Interior Decorator. From the entry accordion blind
• Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161. From the entry quintation
• The decor is minimal but luxurious, each room features plastered walls and floor-to-ceiling windows fitted with slatted wooden shutters, making the space extremely ’grammable.2015 June 9, Rosie Fitzmaurice, “Hotel of the week: Casa Pueblo, Tulum”, in Evening Standard. From the entry 'grammable
• He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window.2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry rustfully
• These kaparrings were thick soles of wood raised from the ground by a slat at each end, higher at the toes than at the heel.1947, Norah G. Henshilwood, All These Under a Summer Sun, page 62. From the entry kaparring
• Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me.2010 October 26, Barrie Summy, I So Don't Do Spooky, Yearling, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry xylophone
• For example, by paning the glass horizontally (putting a single horizontal slat through the middle of the window), it almost looks as if you installed two windows.1985, Edward M. Baras, The Symphony Book, page 91. From the entry pane
• The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188. From the entry lapstrake
• A bed slat leaning against the wall, and in one corner a woman’s high button shoe, curled up at the toe and broken over the instep.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 56. From the entry high button shoe
• In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. From the entry shive
• There are no bodyside parcels racks, but a slatted shelf is provided at the base of each chair, under the seat, for light articles such as brief cases or handbags.1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222. From the entry bodyside

Meaning of slat

1. noun A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
2. noun A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
3. noun A ski.

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Questions about slat in a sentence

How do you use slat in a sentence?

Slat is used as a noun and verb. For example: “During taxi, the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.”

What is a short sentence with slat?

“Clarence didn't lose his slats.”

What does slat mean?

Slat means a thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.