Example sentences for: shelf

How can you use “shelf” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Dardennes are peerless at staging and shooting rituals, such as Rosetta's day selling waffles and beer from a truck: taking an order, plucking a waffle from the iron, grabbing a beer from the shelf, counting money, making change, saying thank you, taking another order … It's easy to dismiss films that make grandiose statements about how people ought to live but never convincingly portray how they do.

  • The Inupiat Inuit, who hunt whale, seal, and fish, favor development on the coastal plain--but not offshore continental shelf drilling.

  • Having popped into his local reference library and taken this dictionary from the shelf, has all become clear to him?

  • Start watching now; the early episodes are wonderful, but the scent of "short shelf life" hangs in the air.

  • The primary support for the pelvic organs comes from the pelvic floor muscles [ 1 2 ] . This suggests that an alteration to the levator ani supportive function may significantly contribute to the pathogenesis of PFD [ 3 ] , which affect 5% of younger and nearly 50% of elderly women [ 2 ] . In women, the levator muscles form a horizontal shelf with an anterior midline cleft (the urogenital hiatus) through which the urethra, vagina, and rectum pass.


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