1 The sea was the colour of slate.

2 Only a skilled workman can split slate into layers.

3 The walls were mostly slate.

4 Its slate roof differentiates this house from others.

5 There were several slates missing from the roof.

6 The leadership want to present a single slate of candidates to be approved in an open vote.

7 The senator has not got a full slate of delegates in New York.

8 The contract specifies red tiles, not slates,[] for the roof.

9 I've no change, could you put these eggs on the slate?

10 Their cottage was roofed with green slate.

11 The new store is slated to open in spring.

12 Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

13 The slates were underlaid with oilpaper.

14 Prisoners shouted and hurled slates in protest.

15 30,000 tonnes of slate are gouged out of the mountains every week.

16 A new relationship presents you with the opportunity to wipe the slate clean.

17 Arnold Schwarzenegger's new restaurant has been slated by a top food critic.

18 I was told that I was being slated for promotion.

19 Controversial energy measures are slated for Senate debate within days.

20 He received a nasty knock on the head from a falling slate.

21 Giving him a heavy slating will do him good.

22 The reviewers gave his book a sound sLating.

23 A heavy slating always does me good.

24 A hearty slating always does me good.

25 The main sail was blowing and slating with a noise like thunder.