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.

  • The theory was largely shelved for two thousand years until several physicists produced theories which led to the fact that the atom could be split.

  • Before it was shelved last year, the show was populated by weak characters--Franken's Al Freundlich was a total boob--and riddled with tired gags (e.g.

  • Lucky audiences who caught Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it was shelved when Richard Carpenter served the producers with an order to cease and desist exhibition) began by laughing at this elaborately posed, soft-rock femme, only to discover by the climax that the cultural forces that were eating at her (and that kept her from eating) had grown heartbreakingly palpable.

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


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