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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But Mair, too, has had to whittle his lab down to just five people and shelved many of the team’s more ambitious experiments.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The project’s costs came to at least $15 billion before getting shelved.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
The version ultimately was shelved by Disney.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Should Adebayo be shelved for significant time, Spoelstra will be able to at least bring in some shooting help, with probably Nikola Jovic being inserted into the first five.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The project’s costs came to at least $15 billion before getting shelved.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
The version ultimately was shelved by Disney.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Should Adebayo be shelved for significant time, Spoelstra will be able to at least bring in some shooting help, with probably Nikola Jovic being inserted into the first five.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 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 19 Oct. 2025.
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