shelved; shelving
1
: to furnish with shelves
2
: to place on a shelf
shelve books
3
a
: to remove from active service
b
: to put off or aside
shelve a project
: to slope in a formation like a shelf
shelver
noun
Examples of shelve in a Sentence
The books were shelved according to category.
let's shelve the project for now
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Carter, especially, has been locked in—working hands-on with producers and engineers, shelving solo drops to focus entirely on building the album’s foundation.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Drawing on her experience at General Motors, Buckberg said companies are likely reassessing their earlier plans to scale back EV operations, including whether to keep certain models running longer or revive programs that had been shelved.
—Allie Canal, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
Bad Robot was to have produced some DC features, too, but those were shelved once DC Studios, under James Gunn and Peter Safran, was created.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Things are going to change, and the big-ticket items are going to be shelved or moved behind the counter or just not accessible to anybody but staff.
—Ashley Paul, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Drawing on her experience at General Motors, Buckberg said companies are likely reassessing their earlier plans to scale back EV operations, including whether to keep certain models running longer or revive programs that had been shelved.
—Allie Canal, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
Bad Robot was to have produced some DC features, too, but those were shelved once DC Studios, under James Gunn and Peter Safran, was created.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Things are going to change, and the big-ticket items are going to be shelved or moved behind the counter or just not accessible to anybody but staff.
—Ashley Paul, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for shelve
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“Shelve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shelve. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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