Sentence examples similar to act as a shelf from inspiring English sources

For the ultimate skater, mounting an old board on the wall not only acts as a handy shelf but will also be a proud way to show shred-worthy credibility.

The flow of the glaciers is resisted naturally by the seams where the glaciers merge and by the rocky bay walls that the ice shelves attach to, making the shelves act as a sort of doorstop.

Ice shelves act as a brake on glaciers flowing from the land by plugging the bays they flow into with solid floating ice.

The shelves act as a buttress to the "grounded" ice, helping slow the flow of the ice sheet's glaciers into the ocean.

Floating ice shelves, which act as a natural "door stop" by slowing land-based ice sheet melt into the ocean, are affected by both air and ocean temperatures, explained Luke Trusel, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Use an old skateboard as a shelf.

Cut the slab to size to serve as a shelf.

You'd be hard pressed to find more Pabst Blue Ribbon memorabilia gathered in one place than at Bob and Barbara's, whose walls and shelves act as an unofficial PBR museum.

"So I act as a watchman.

But will they act as a partner?

"They act as a deterrent," Bruch said.