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.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHELVES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  I spoke to the library about it, and they took it off the shelves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
11  In the corner at my right were all my books, in shelves I had made and painted myself.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
12  Nina and Jan, and a little girl named Lucie, kept shyly pointing out to me the shelves of glass jars.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  That came from the bottles on the shelves.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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.