Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: slates
IPA transcription: [sl'eɪts]
Usage examples
  • Cut-up picture puzzles, painting books, tracing slates with large and simple designs cultivate observation and ingenuity.
  • She saw them writing with their diamond pencils on golden slates, while she looked at the beautiful picture book which had cost half a kingdom.
  • Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles.
  • Old Hurricane bought her books and maps, slates and copy-books, set her lessons in grammar, geography and history, and made her write copies, do sums and read and recite lessons to him.
  • 'You speak sooth, O Cyril,' remarked the Phoenix, coming out from the cupboard where the blackbeetles lived, and the torn books, and the broken slates, and odd pieces of toys that had lost the rest of themselves.
  • It was thatched with heather, and possessed but a single chimney that rose but little above the apex of the roof, and had two slates set on the top to protect the rising smoke from being blown down the chimney into the cottage when the wind was from the west or from the east.