Example sentences for: shelved

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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