Example sentences for: shelves

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

  • 2 On the other hand, the retail “wagon” should not be too full, since stocking retail shelves with unpopular items also results in excess costs—the cost of capital tied up in unwanted goods, the opportunity cost of the space that could be used for products that customers would buy if present, and, ultimately, lost margin when retailers must resort to price markdowns or product disposal to clear languishing items from their shelves.

  • The Johnson Building was added in 1972 and now the library holds more than six million books stored on 65 miles of shelves.

  • The unusual Cuban wooden shelves are of interest as well as the documents relating to the discovery and conquest of the Americas that rest on them.

  • "In Austria, there used to be customs about when businesses could operate," says Dusty Sprengnagel, who owns a shop called Neon Line and whose book on neon will reach store shelves later this year.

  • Thanks to late-stage capitalism, the supermarket shelves sag with scores of brands in the three main paper categories.


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