Example sentences for: shelves

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

  • The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.

  • Then there was the labor of composition, year after year of struggling to assemble these materials into a coherent narrative form without getting bogged down by the facts--the downfall of so many of the bloated biographies that now weigh down the shelves of Barnes & Noble for their three-week window before being shipped back to the publisher.

  • The Martin Luther King public library in Washington, D.C., said its last copy disappeared from the shelves six years ago.

  • Coca-Cola products were removed from store shelves in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands after dozens of drinkers complained of nausea and intestinal trouble.

  • 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.


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