Slates

Synonyms for "slates" (27 found)

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Noun(5 words)

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Noun(8 words)
planproposed lineuproofscheduleslamslate rockslate stonetile

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appointmentaward slatebookingcandidates slatepanroofing slateslamslate roofingslate tileslate tilesspeakers slate

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roofing slateslate a roofslate boardslate chalkboardslate contractorslate quarryslate roofslate roofingslate tileslate tilesslated for

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the better — from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.

Source: tatoeba (5705234)

Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.

Source: tatoeba (7414179)

"Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future."

Source: tatoeba (7414180)

Kids are not blank slates.

Source: tatoeba (11449822)

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