How To Use Shelve In A Sentence

Use your noddle - clear the shelves before you paint the cupboard!
He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
Lazy Susans, pullout shelves, and special trays can make kitchen cabinets much more useful.
Gumball machines decorated the shelves and children could still buy gummies for one cent.
The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.

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All staff, from Stilwell to the summer interns who answered phones and restocked supply shelves, were assembled and scattered among the desks in the largest space in the headquarters, where partitions had been removed to give them an unobstructed view of their candidate. O: A Presidential Novel
The lacquered cream cabinet sits on an elm stand, and there are four removable shelves inside. Times, Sunday Times
There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves.
The bestiaries proved troublesome too, as all the ones she could find were chained to their shelves. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
It houses not only a flat-screen television, DVD player, reclining leather armchair, capacious bookshelves and an L-shaped execu-desk, but also a loo and what an estate agent might call a bijou kitchenette. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
This means that customers who like the retailer's own brand goods can quickly identify them on the shelves.
Strong winds have built up large shelves of snow hanging off cliffs and steep mountain sides. Times, Sunday Times
He stood, his foot on the lower rungs of a ladder that led to the upper shelves, with his weight propped on his elevated knee.
Albatrosses, petrels, shags and shearwaters glide merrily around, all because of continental shelves and currents that slope and converge and form a giant feeding ground for these stars of the sea.
A residents' petition called for the venture to be shelved until a more suitable access route was devised.
But with only a nonworking model available in late June, getting thousands of units on store shelves by the fall seems a stretch.
Shake up your menu occasionally, and scour supermarket shelves for flavorful extras.
The sleeve maintains a consistently low temperature throughout the vertically disposed shelves of the cryobiological materials contained within the inner tank.
Most merchants can live with thin margins if they have to, as long as merchandise is flying off the shelves. Times, Sunday Times
A senior royal aide said yesterday that the plan had now been shelved. Times, Sunday Times
The Sergeant gave her a pentagonal shaped cabin slightly larger, slightly more comfortable than the one she had had downstairs, sporting retractable shelves which sprung out here and there to alter the shape of the room.
It was thought at the time that a full scale legal cadastre was a fundamental requirement, so the program was shelved.
This is an attractive and fascinating shop where one can visit the restaurant or just browse through shelves of semi-precious rocks and stones imported from all parts of the world.
I personally fell in love with one of Robin Zehr's new "horsehair" pottery pieces and it soon will be gracing one of the shelves in my living room. PNJ - News
Seventy plus males all fighting over the remote control, forgetting your birthday or nailing wonky shelves to the firmament without first reading the instructions?
He purchased a new queen-size bed for the bedroom and constructed a small library, its bookshelves filled with biographies as well as volumes devoted to history, political science, and New Journalism, including the works of Hunter S. American Legacy
They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. Cow Manure To Be Used In Furniture And Flooring | Impact Lab
Extra virgin, light, with lemon, unfiltered, cold-pressed: the variety of olive oil on most supermarket shelves is dazzling. Feds To Begin Enforcing Olive Oil Designations
So many books piled on the shelves, glossy covers, crisp paper that had never before been read.
The aerie overlooked a savannah of cubicles with shelves lined with gizmos, yurtlike conference rooms, and countless microkitchens equipped with goodie-stuffed fridges and high-end espresso machines. In the Plex
These have been triggered in part by the unseasonably warm weather, which has left unwanted winter clothes piled high on the shelves. Times, Sunday Times
So shelve that sugar and stir honey crystals into your brownie batter instead.
The shelves were lined with books which neither Hugo nor Sally would ever open, much less read.
When I was 15, I got a job stacking shelves in Dunnes Stores.
Years go by and the books are still in the packing cases, the shelves still empty. Times, Sunday Times
Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts.
Smaller shelves for hardback fiction. Times, Sunday Times
There is already a deal in place at Bravo for a new TV series, Project Red, which deals exclusively with films that are either shelved or stopped before production.
On the coffee table, on the bookshelves in between books with worn bindings, were framed photographs of Phil and Karen.
Is anyone seriously suggesting that, say, octogenarians should qualify for stacking shelves at Dunnes Stores?
It is also worth investing in some stylish box files for your shelves. Times, Sunday Times
The skin serious conveniently is octopoda on the bonduc of the jird, and is upward hospitably offending with the frequently shelver of the day. Rational Review
Just in time to rescue the roast, a new range of gourmet gravies and stocks has hit the shelves. Times, Sunday Times
The bottom shelved gently down from the margins and levelled out at 10 feet depth just at the point where the reeds ended.
With so many brands and types of wine on the shelves, many bemused Scottish consumers plump for a bottle because the design on the label looks good.
With my neck craned back, I can count the screws in the shelves on the far side of the room.
The shelves were full of neatly stacked jars and bottles.
And the next resolution might be to wash any part of your stash that is still waiting in its factory-fresh condition on your shelves. Resolved. - A Dress A Day
The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.
But talks with the credit - card supplier have ended after the bank decided to shelve plans to open a large customer contact centre in Europe.
She took a piece of paper from the notebook from one of the shelves in the hallway and then found a handy dandy pen and began writing in a neat yet hurried script to her mother.
Roadmap-patterned wallpaper lined the elevator's interior, and an array of pinwheels and movable disk sculptures were laid out on shelves.
The Serb picked out Shelvey whose deflected shot found the net. The Sun
Sebastian Jamieson sings and dreams while he punches the till, packs the shelves and unloads trucks at Clicks Store in Grahamstown's Church Square.
They check that the items are continuously on the shelves and promoted prominently.
But in truth we have chosen to shelve the unification-independence dispute and focus on reviving the economy and strengthening Taiwan.
Dark corners, shelves, eaves, and window ledges sparkle with lights and decorations that celebrate the year as they annunciate our civility and hope. Tom Gregory: Baby Jesus is Kidnapped in Beverly Hills (Video)
Lilac wallpaper and oilcloth on pantry shelves say he was married, and scattered toys suggest children.
Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
Traditionally, a food bank's shelves are filled haphazardly with whatever goods companies overproduce.
At the time, however, Old Beijing City was seen as a symbol of feudalism and eventually the Liang & Chen Plan was shelved, resulting in the wholesale destruction of hutongs.
Preparations made from this herb have become hugely popular as a treatment for mild forms of depression, as St John's wort has found its way out of specialist herbalists and onto the shelves of high street chemists.
As soon as this guy chose to outfit all his groomsmen in personalized velour sweatsuits, they just started flying off the shelves; we couldn't keep them in stock.
The pieces were displayed on shelves, propped against the wall, emphasizing their three-dimensionality.
The books are lovingly maintained, and kept on shelves behind a protective screen.
The solution of piling up huge amounts of products on back room shelves (increasing operational costs for the retailer) is, in the best case, still only a partial solution.
We made the radical decision to intershelve periodicals, government documents, maps, and ephemera with the books in their subject areas.
Meanwhile the price of the cappuccinos and lattes in the high street coffee bars, and of coffee on the supermarket shelves, remains as high as ever.
Somehow, writing extremely plot-driven fiction seems to have pushed me over into the borderlands of genre -- in most bookstores my book's shelved with literary fiction, but at least one genre bookstore carries it (Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego) and it was reviewed in Mystery Scene. Archive 2010-05-01
Now supermarket shelves groan under Mexican tacos, Japanese miso soup powder and Italian pasta.
Amy ran her finger along the rippled fore-edge and then put the book away amongst the rows of others shelved in the fireside alcove. THE WHITE DOVE
Densely packed bookshelves can also act as backstops.
African cibet and the Chinese and Indian zibet, yield), including the hyaena civet from the Cape of Good Hope: genets and ichneumons, which will be found on the lower shelves; and the Mexican house-marten. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
From one of the shelves, I distinctly heard a pack of conchiglie, big shell-shaped pasta, calling my name with their many little voices.
Because the shelves are full of cold remedies. The Sun
BRITAIN'S strongest coffee hits the shelves this week - twice as potent as the usual brands. The Sun
Set apart from the shelves of local stock, like aliens at an airport, a bin boldly featured wines from California.
But fans have now shelved the drive. The Sun
Now my shelves groan under the weight of vinyl and CDs which remain unheard and unloved.
In the adjacent cabinet, glide-out shelves provide pantry storage.
Opening the door Rebecca first went to the shelves to find a book that could interest her.
Place car care items and miscellaneous items on shelves in clearly labeled boxes or bins.
But the GDP data plus monthly numbers suggest that companies are still having a hard time restocking their shelves.
Now, I'm very soft-hearted and happen to know that my meat appears by special act of creation divinely shrink-wrapped on Tesco shelves.
As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties.
Wash all removable shelves and bins, letting them soak in the sink to remove tough stains.
Many large oil companies have had to delay or shelve big projects. Times, Sunday Times
The fireplace is flanked by fitted floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
The tracking system uses sensors hidden under Gillette shelves to detect when products are picked up.
He placed the basket on one of the shelves and closed the door.
Wood or plastic shelves then rest on the brackets.
Most people would just shrug and go get a job stacking shelves in Tescos.
I followed him to the rear of the shop, and he began to haul down from the shelves box after box, displaying their contents for my delectation.
A dusty pile of sheet rock tumbled from one of the high, unsteady shelves and landed beside Barbara.
In addition to this there is always room for extra shelves in the hot press and wardrobes to keep smaller items such as irons, hairdryers, electric shavers.
‘Large icebergs calve off on a fairly regular basis from the larger ice shelves in Antarctica’ he says.
Cobwebs coated the shelves, which were piled with scrolls, leaves, and stone slabs.
There were lots of bookshelves filled with books, encyclopedias and dictionaries.
In the kitchen there were three fires blazing, stacks of _Bratwurst_ on the tables, great kettles for the sour-krout and potatoes, and eggs, lettuce, and other finer viands, for the dignitaries, on the shelves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
The wrapped rolls were arranged either in rows on shelves or in batches in solander boxes or poor quality, dilapidated card boxes.
The shelves are stacked with showbiz autobiographies, including her own weighty tome. The Sun
There is a sizeable range for cooking, with open stone shelves on one side and a large dresser and side tables on the wall opposite. Times, Sunday Times
The Serb picked out Shelvey whose deflected shot found the net. The Sun
The kitchen has an Aga range, wooden shelves and storage spaces throughout.
The depth of the shelves is about 35 cm.
In fact, shelf and storage units such as the "Random" bookshelves by MDF Italia £1,640 at Viaduct, www.viaduct.co.uk were designed for the sole purpose of displaying books and objects as one sees fit, sideways or stacked or both. Knickknacks Move Off the Shelf
The shore shelves down to the sea.
Go through and out the other end to where the bottom shelves up steeply into the kelp zone.
On the shelves were rank after rank of liquor bottles.
The head librarian, who could have posed for Norman Rockwell, doddered about the place fluffing up the books and tidying the shelves. 1 800 GOA WAYY
I looked at the books on the shelves, which I still shared with my father: my music books, of which I was still very fond, among them Twenty Royal Phantasies for Three Viols; my books on painting, one of which, a translation of Lomazzo's delightful A tracte containing the Artes of curious Paintinge, had shepherded my own earliest assays at drawing; and my parents 'volumes of works by the most noble Sir Philip Sidney. The Stream and The Torrent
Get your "sweetened dried fruit" deemed to be "held out for sale as snacking and home baking" and your product will bear a tax and have to compete on grocers 'shelves with zero-rated "sweetened dried fruit held out for sale as confectionary/snacking. Small Bras and the Value-Added Tax
The beach shelved gently down to the water.
Recently a homeowner in Finland was engaged in a ritual spring cleaning, which included emptying the bookshelves and dusting each volume.
To overcome this problem one enterprising manufacturer now produces narrow contoured baskets which fit snugly on to the shelves of all popular designs.
In some of these they deposited their upper jackets, which they usually take off in coming into their huts, as we do a greatcoat; while in smaller ones, like little shelves in a recess, they kept various articles of their Kabloona riches. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
Her bathroom would have been shell-pink, its shelves lined with large, ozone-destroying cans of hairspray. Times, Sunday Times
Plans to expand the company have had to be quietly shelved.
You'll find wood storage shelves and crates in pine, oak, redwood, and a variety of other woods, or you can have a wood shop custom make whatever you need.
George went in the direction Sal indicated and opened the specified cabinet, to reveal two long shelves lined with rows of bottles.
The ladders were disguised as bookshelves to fool the guards. Times, Sunday Times
Shelves and walls in Latonya's home were filled with family photographs, childlike paintings, and mimeographed school announcements.
Central to the transformation was the creation of an inviting sitting area oriented toward a new gas fireplace flanked by tall bookshelves.
She bought some timber off-cuts to build kitchen shelves.
The shelves and fissures which bisect these rocks are home to edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, prawns, squat lobsters and the occasional large common lobster, which will march out boldly to meet your intrusion.
Immediately, everyone sprawled around in an uproar, plucking edibles and foodstuffs from cabinets and shelves.
The beach shelved gently down to the water.
Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
This deserves to fly off the shelves and out of the shopping websites. Times, Sunday Times
She brought her piano from home and put it against one wall, right next to a bookshelf containing some board games, not far from shelves lined with books, their spines worn and inviting.
Please dust the shelves.
Beside the bottom bunk was a small table with two shelves above it.
According to TIME and the paper's abstract, the team created models based on the formation of similar terrain on Earth -- subglacial volcanos and ice shelves -- to determine how the chaos terrain on Europa could have formed. Europa Water: Scientists Find Evidence Of Lakes On Jupiter's Moon (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
We had a similar problem four years ago and the big apples just lingered on the shelves. Times, Sunday Times
Another circumstance is the "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell, sometimes not shelved by bookstores or libraries in their SF sections; of course, the book is about first contact with aliens and travel to an alien planet, it might be Spec. Thumbing Their Noses at Science Fiction
Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
A senior royal aide said yesterday that the plan had now been shelved. Times, Sunday Times
Originally Miramax scheduled the film for release in late 2001, but after September 11 it was shelved indefinitely.
Back home it's quiet enough, and uncrowded, and the shelves in my cupboard, unlike those in the supermarket, are well stocked.
His shelves were occupied by the eight different kinds of bread in common use -- wassel, used only by knights and squires; cocket, the kind in ordinary use by smaller folk; maslin, a mixture of wheat, oats, and barley; barley, rye, and brown bread, the fare of tradesmen and monks; oaten, the food of the poorest; and horse bread. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
These are most useful on top of kitchen cabinets or beneath shelves to contribute more radiant light. Times, Sunday Times
The present government flirted with an 80% target for home ownership, but quietly shelved it. Times, Sunday Times
No children defying their parents and pulling things off the shelves and no scary women with accordion folders full of coupons.
The bookshelves are packed with stuffed animals and books, and the mantel is lined with photographs of the children who live here. In S. Africa's Orphanages, Is Doing Good Really Bad?
According to rock writer Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana bio, "Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana," the label prepped an alternate cover without Elden's penis showing, but shelved it when Cobain said the only compromise he would make to the nudity was to cover it with a sticker that read, "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile. Boing Boing
sturdy steel shelves
They hugged table-legs, raced up walls, skulked under shelves and stood shivering in nooks and corners.
Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level, with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space.
On entering their front door we were confronted by shelves and shelves of head and tail light clusters.
They are not found from Franklinian, Andean, Italian, and Tasmanian geosynclines and their adjacent shelves.
There is a clunky, inelegant quality to these objects that is matched by the deliberately crude quality of the plywood tables and shelves on which they rest.
If possible, there should also be shelves on family bookcases that they can also browse.
All types of macaroni and spaghetti, seen on local shelves, are produced here.
Greenhouse shelves are brimming, but make room for cucurbit starts (squash, melons and gourds).
They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
The new product will arrive on supermarket shelves early next year.
After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election.
On one of those many delightful shelves is pads of paper, wedged in there with a paint-jar, paintbrushes, boxes of pencils, pens, crayons, etcetera.
The metal frame holds drawers and shelves in teak and lacquered wood. Times, Sunday Times
They have been selected from hundreds of specimens that are grown in the culture plates that fill the lab's shelves.
We undress in a small anteroom and fold our clothes neatly into baskets on the shelves.
Other bold-faced bibliotheques to check out include Brooke Astor's much knocked-off red lacquer and brass cases designed by Albert Hadley, Karl Lagerfeld's 60,000-plus collection on steel shelves in Paris and Cole Porter's handsome, freestanding brass bookshelves designed by Billy Baldwin. Bookish Good Looks
Nevertheless, I scoured the store shelves to find the best brands that hair mousse has to offer.
They will about occupy three _cheffonier_ shelves; -- or what delightful volumes for fire-side shelves, or a "little book-room," or a breakfast parlour opening on The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
Like gunslingers in their own shoot-'em-up games, top console makers are blasting away with marketing salvoes months before products even hit the shelves.
The walls were lined with racks and shelves and cupboards and cabinets holding an assortment of equipment in organized rows.
Beck had no intention of letting his report gather dust on the legislative shelves.
After a car crash in 2008 sidelined bassist Chi Cheng with a brain injury, his Sacramento bandmates shelved finished album Eros and enlisted fill-in Sergio Vega to embark on an uplifting, polychromatic homage to their fallen brother. Listen Up: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony reunite in 'Uni-5'
Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
The clutter continues inside, where the Great Hall, dominated by a large mural of King, also houses a kiosk selling de-accessioned books, a video phone booth, a temporary stage, a tub for recycling cellphones, tables for displaying books, movable art pods that serve as exhibition space, and special shelves for books pertinent (at the moment) to National Bike Month. Mies's modernist D.C. library building is getting a complementary companion
In conversations chez Althouse, we do often start taking books off the shelves and pointing out paragraphs, but that's more of a family thing.
Those glossy red apples from California may look wonderful on our supermarket shelves but they do so because they're coated with a wax made from pig fat and I simply don't fancy them.
At the opposite side of the room, a much worn sailor's hat, commonly called a tarpaulin, was balanced upon the point of a fishing rod, and beneath this trophy was placed a small side board, the open doors of which disclosed a number of shelves laden with gilt edged drinking vessels of white and blue china; a set of rose colored tea-cups, and several polished silver plated mugs. The Home in the Valley
Upwelling of cold oceanic nutrient-rich waters in many shelves leads to extensive plankton blooms.
I made and put up some shelves recently, and had cause to re-sort all the books in the house.
Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.
Further shelves groan under the weight of documents pertaining to translation rights and international licensing. The Times Literary Supplement
Unable to find enough energy to hit a ball his confidence drained away and, with no income, he took a job folding clothes and stacking shelves for a living.
But the garage addition with a mudroom is being built around the bin of frozen shoes, and hopefully I will someday soon have shelves for them all! Archive 2007-02-01
The cost of fitted shelves and units can break the bank.
There are more whiskeys on the glass shelves than you'll find in most distilleries and the staff are charming without being smarmy.
But annual league guides and almanacs take up more space on your bookshelves and credit cards than they are worth.
Witch Way to the Mall, Esther's anthology about witches in suburbia, which just hit the shelves. State of the me
His half day off was invariably spent tinkering about the stuffy little flat -- painting, nailing up shelves, mending a broken window shade, puttying a window, playing with his pasty little boy, aged sixteen months, and his pasty little girl, aged three years. Gigolo
If I put the shelves near the radiator, the heat might warp them.
Turner must be, by my reckoning, the most frequently exhibited artist of all time. I have five shelves just of his catalogues.
Finally we entered what looked like an oversize, paneled study with a stone fireplace on one side, a wall-mounted television in the corner, and bookshelves taking up the opposite wall. Haven
Shelves and cabinets and glass houses held a countless array of arms and equipment.
Bronze deities to beautify the living room shelves are on display.
The way I had my shelves and my dess before took up virtually all wall space and that is just not exceptable I need to be able to hang things to live with them, or just to get them off the easle or table so I can work on other things it's nice to be able to put them on the wall where there safer then being propped up in the corner. Madrigle Diary Entry
This time — you know, we laid the last track down in November, and it’s just been one thing after another, some snafu at the label buried the Christmas release, and then there was — oh man, I can’t even talk about that, but it was supposed to hit the shelves in February but now, you know, we just don’t know. I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever
One of the saddest and most galling aspects of this foot and mouth tragedy has been the relentless, silent, unpublicised invasion of our shop shelves by imported meat.
Living in the shadows of quasi-legality, abandonware, programs once commercially sold now absent from store shelves, are popular on the Net.
Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December, the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves.
On the ground floor there four reception rooms, a kitchen with fitted units, a separate utility room and two larders with traditional stone shelves.
The release of the third movie means books in the series continue to spend more time with readers than on library shelves.
She found a handyman who put up bookshelves made of green, unaged timber, which she knew would warp and sag. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Turns out American factory culture may not have changed enough since Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle," to stop bacterium-infected food products from hitting store shelves.
On the ivory shelves you see some soft orchid linen galligaskins, some buttercup yellow doeskin galligaskins, some pale celadon silk galligaskins, some deep crimson satin galligaskins, some olive green wool galligaskins, some onyx black velvet galligaskins, some dark umber leather galligaskins and some bright cyan twill galligaskins.

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