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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The records themselves are not easy to use; manuscripts are shelved around the world, and the texts, written in four different European languages, still have not been fully brought together in modern translations and analysis.
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Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
One by one, the retail experiments got shuttered and shelved.
—Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
And finally, in late October, when plans for another bilateral summit were shelved (again because the Kremlin seemed unwilling to compromise), the White House slapped sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil giants, Lukoil and Rosneft – a step even the Biden administration had balked at.
—Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
With the city well behind its housing goals and high construction costs shelving efforts to build, San Jose is considering expanding financial incentives to spur the next wave of development projects.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
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Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
One by one, the retail experiments got shuttered and shelved.
—Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
And finally, in late October, when plans for another bilateral summit were shelved (again because the Kremlin seemed unwilling to compromise), the White House slapped sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil giants, Lukoil and Rosneft – a step even the Biden administration had balked at.
—Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
With the city well behind its housing goals and high construction costs shelving efforts to build, San Jose is considering expanding financial incentives to spur the next wave of development projects.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 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 1 Feb. 2026.
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