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77 examples of Slate in a sentence

This is a touching slate meant for blind children.
This is strips of Velcro, this is my drawing slate, and this is my drawing pen, which is basically a film box.
My story started in England with a clean slate and the silence of immigrant parents.
The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids hoisted them from their heads using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope and torn cloth.
In 2005, we launched our first slate of films, "Murder Ball," "North Country," "Syriana" and "Good Night and Good Luck."
He demanded that every open position have a diverse slate of candidates.
Barefoot, careful on the slick slate slabs, I need no light, I know the way, stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair, spread a shawl, and sit, breathing in the wet green August air.
Then you wipe the slate clean, start a third act as a political activist focusing on protecting the First Amendment and the separation of church and state.
If you can get a mouse that is functional, then you can see, is the new brain a blank slate?
And you can absolutely never, absolutely never, because of history and the inherited plan, start with a clean slate.
The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.
The book is called "The Blank Slate," based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and that all of its structure comes from socialization, culture, parenting, experience.
The "blank slate" was an influential idea in the 20th century.
There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense.
Now, given both the common sense and scientific data calling the doctrine of the blank slate into question, why should it have been such an appealing notion?
But if something is written on the slate, then some people could have more of it than others, and according to this line of thinking, that would justify discrimination and inequality.
I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely.
Trailer number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.
But for me, unlike them, in my world, the slate was not clean, and what was written on it was not encouraging.
People do slate it for how old the boys look.
I'm not usually one to slate a film .
We have to remember that the 50's were practically a blank slate when it came to movies.
Having never seen the original Dirty Harry, I judged this movie on a clean slate.
Mostly, but not all were Democrats who rounded up and registered the foreign ethnic populations and got them to vote for the party slate.
Not being the first to slate this movie I feel confident that my opinion is valid.
I walked in with a clean slate.
To some degree, the two countries began with a blank slate, given that they had largely kept their distance from each other for several centuries.
In an effort to stem recurrent debt crises, traditional societies embraced the “Law of Jubilee,” a ceremonial wiping clean of the slate.
Or the court might test out a new era name after a political debacle, in an effort to wipe the slate clean.
To change this state of affairs, institutional investors must be allowed to propose their own slate of directors.
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