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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Hiring efforts, already stymied in part by still-high interest rates, have been largely shelved due to the unknowns.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
The move would mark an important milestone for Nvidia -backed Cohesity, which shelved IPO plans in 2021 to first execute a complex merger with its rival Veritas’ data protection unit, according to Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
After Searchlight’s parent company, Disney, investigated the claims, the studio shelved the movie.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Moreno said Robert Rivas shelved the bill after speaking to his brother, who acted as an unregistered lobbyist on behalf of Friends of the University, a political action committee that opposed the amendment.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
The move would mark an important milestone for Nvidia -backed Cohesity, which shelved IPO plans in 2021 to first execute a complex merger with its rival Veritas’ data protection unit, according to Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
After Searchlight’s parent company, Disney, investigated the claims, the studio shelved the movie.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Moreno said Robert Rivas shelved the bill after speaking to his brother, who acted as an unregistered lobbyist on behalf of Friends of the University, a political action committee that opposed the amendment.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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 Sep. 2025.
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