SHELVES in a Sentence
Learn SHELVES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
49 example sentences for SHELVES, such as:
1. Set my case over the shelves.
2. That came from the bottles on the shelves.
3. Level off the shelves with a spirit level.
4. Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
5. Glass shelves help maximise light in a small bathroom.
2. That came from the bottles on the shelves.
3. Level off the shelves with a spirit level.
4. Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
5. Glass shelves help maximise light in a small bathroom.
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Meanings and Examples of SHELVES
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shelves
v. hold back to a later time
v. place on a shelf
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 There was a semblance of order in the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and notions.
2 She had again addressed herself to the shelves, but her eyes now swept them inattentively, and he saw that she was preoccupied with a new idea.
3 If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table.
4 She recognized the row of shelves from which he had taken down his La Bruyere, and the worn arm of the chair he had leaned against while she examined the precious volume.
5 I spoke to the library about it, and they took it off the shelves.
6 She looked about at shelves of red rubber water-bottles, pale yellow sponges, wash-rags with blue borders, hair-brushes of polished cherry backs.
7 In fact it was a good dodge to volunteer "I must not touch," when you looked at the tools on the glass shelves in Father's office.
8 Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves.
9 They moved us into town, put down the carpets in our new house, made shelves and cupboards for grandmother's kitchen, and seemed loath to leave us.
10 Frances said, when she told grandmother and me about this scene, that every pan and plate and cup on the shelves trembled when her mother walked out of the kitchen.
11 In the corner at my right were all my books, in shelves I had made and painted myself.
12 Nina and Jan, and a little girl named Lucie, kept shyly pointing out to me the shelves of glass jars.
13 He meant to take one side out of these tomorrow, and put shelves in them, and make them into bureaus and places to keep things for the bedrooms.
14 What had been a conservatory had now no window-shades, and on the mouldering shelves stood some dry, forsaken flower-pots, with sticks in them, whose dried leaves showed they had once been plants.
15 That came from the bottles on the shelves.
Example Sentence:
1 Set my case over the shelves.
2 There doesn't seem to be any system to the books on these shelves - they're certainly not in alphabetical order.
3 Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
4 Level off the shelves with a spirit level.
5 An increasing amount of organic produce is to be found on supermarket shelves.
6 As British companies withdraw Jade's top-selling perfume from the shelves, it's losing work for people in Mumbai where its bottles are manufactured.
7 I think the industry has been entirely premature in putting this kind of food onto shelves in our supermarkets.
8 Glass shelves help maximise light in a small bathroom.