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shelved example sentences
shelved
1. What a surprise! Bunty appears to have shelved the idea
2. The turbine project was shelved
3. would have lit le believability, so we shelved the manuscript
4. She shelved items in
5. shelved for now, but maybe once I get this tome published, I will have
6. I even have a piece of commercial fiction that's about one quarter complete, though I've shelved that for now
7. Neatly shelved under the monitors were dozens of DVDs, labelled with date and name
8. I see the Bible as a great resource for living, but I have shelved any literal interpretation of its contents and use it only as a guide and a starting point for healthy discussion
9. Unfortunately, it seems that it will now have to be shelved, unless I find a way to fund it or to convince the Federal Council to change its mind about it
10. Even getting any type of non-archaic weapon to work on a ship seemed to have been a permanently shelved project
11. collected and shelved in cob-webbed archives
12. The film was permanently shelved, although some spoke of revival with hushed reverence
13. She laughed as she shelved the last of the books, then looked directly at Connie
14. Connie picked up Peter Straub’s Julia, which had been shelved in the wrong place, and turned it over in her hand
15. Just as libraries don’t condone readers replacing books on the shelves for fear that the books might be shelved incorrectly and therefore be temporarily
16. That was an interesting development and one he shelved away for further contemplation when the time was right
17. She shelved her curiosity, determined to enjoy the evening
18. The man had been employed at the university for more than two decades and although there were a couple of brief mentions of possible unsavory behaviour toward some of the female students, nothing had been proved and the complaints appeared to have been shelved
19. “There certainly is a common theme,” Aazuria remarked as she studied the rows of spines, thinking of how the carefully shelved volumes reflected on Trevain’s interests
20. With the utmost sympathy and tenderness, and crying so much that he found himself comforting her and wiping away her tears, she had delicately shelved him; and he had been so seriously ill of it that he had had to go away for six months on sick leave, and for years afterwards wouldn't go anywhere, except to Court functions he couldn't avoid, for fear, positively, that if by accident he were so close to her that he had to say something and hear her speak, he might drop dead at
21. were never shelved by the Army Corps of Engineers
22. There had to be at least forty DVDs and videos in the return bin, another stack of returns waiting to be shelved and a big list of reservations in the reservation book
23. Instead of deporting the Jews out of Europe: he put off the whole problem and shelved it
24. Plans to include the normal salesman's perk involving housewives, have been shelved for the moment
25. I have studied people and their goals and found that some goals are impractical in the time limit originally set, and consequently these goals are forgotten or shelved because the intensity or complexity simply overwhelms the goal setter
26. The only solution used to be those flimsy plastic shelved carousels
27. 'So Sebastian is in pursuit of the fox,' he said, 'and our little problem is shelved for an hour or two?'
28. The two halves of this creature were so joined as to reveal no point of fusion where pearl woman, woman of a whiteness made of cream-water and clear sky, merged with that half which belonged to the amphibious slide and rush of current that came up on the shore and shelved down the shore, tugging its half toward its proper home
29. The other shelved the books, withholding one
30. The Illustrated Man trod cat-soft in the labyrinths of shelved and darkly waiting books
31. ” Now that the cotton had been shelved for all time by the death of the husband, leaving a magnificent golden fleece in its stead, her devotion to “the cloth” had reasserted itself
