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Example sentences for: shelves

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

The Johnson Building was added in 1972 and now the library holds more than six million books stored on 65 miles of shelves.
If you crawl through the low doorway of the better-restored naveta, you can appreciate the spacious interior, over 2 m (7 ft) high, with shelves at each end.
But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.
Armed with both his books and, of course, a knowledge of Russian, one has a guide to English personal names that would be a useful addition to anyone's reference shelves.
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.