Example sentences for: shelved

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

  • According to a report in the Pan-Arabic al-Quds al-Arabi Friday, Saudi Arabia is not the only Gulf state to have shelved arms deals.

  • Annan's United Nations has shelved Boutros-Ghali's grand ambitions.

  • According to Tally, Cubist produced daptomycin, approved in September 2003, by licensing it from Eli Lilly, which shelved the new compound after concluding its potential market was only $250 million.

  • Russia has shelved its longstanding plan to switch to a volunteer army because it can't pay enough to recruit soldiers.

  • The Israeli weekly Jerusalem Report claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had recently considered putting into operation a secret plan to murder Hussein that was drawn up, then shelved, in 1991.


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