All too often a patio is merely an area of plain paving slabs furnished with a few metal-framed sun loungers, which are functional but hardly attractive.

Undecorated stelae in the form of plain slabs or columns of stone are found throughout the Maya region.

Finally, halting before a plain slab, she said to me, "It is here."

Trevor found himself standing before a long, plain slab of granite.

The single row of pillars is faced with white marble and the platform is a plain concrete slab.

Lilburne died in 1665 and was buried at the church of Houghton-le -Spring, where he is commorated on a plain blue slab.

Also in the transept is a plain slab decorated with a cross and foliage to the memory of Thomas de Curzon, who died in 1245.

Instead, an uninspired, plain slab of meat, with a sprinkling of parsley, was delivered to our table.

Our altar table is a plain slab of granite on a granite block.

One hand rests on a plain slab in front of her holding a wreath.