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.

  • In my office, two or three times a day I look into the room where the mail is shelved.

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

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

  • The big cable companies--balking at the costs of converting one-way cable to two-way voice lines--have shelved plans to get into the local phone business.


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