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.

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

  • Next door, the House of Neptune has lost its upstairs façade, but the ground floor wine shop with its narrow-necked amphoras on the shelves looks open for business.

  • 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.

  • A few things we do know from the original letter, however: Eating from supermarket shelves is stealing--an act all consumers pay for--and open-access bins may not be pristine.


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