Sentence examples for half shelf from inspiring English sources

His remarkable if intermittent economies — a boy and his grandfather hide from "powdered aunts and freckled cousins" — seem almost antidotal, and have contributed to a surprising continence in the production of his mere half shelf of an œuvre.

His remarkable if intermittent economies a boy and his grandfather hide from "powdered aunts and freckled cousins"—seem almost antidotal, and have contributed to a surprising continence in the production of his mere half shelf of an œuvre.

I have two black half shelves I keep separate from the shelves with books I've read, because I don't want to seem like a fuck who buys books to stack them up.

We arrange a half-shelf of books I haven't read culled from the "maybe" pile.

(My flatmate, who is over six feet tall, has made a land-grab for all the space above the cupboards. This seems only fair, given that his kitchen induction went along the lines of: "Here's the hob, here's the oven, and here's your half-shelf").

The section on "Modern Philosophy" includes volume after volume of Nietzsche and half a shelf of Hume.

Eventually the library, which has an $800,000 annual budget, will have 13,000 volumes, The reference collection barely fills half a shelf.

Where once our spice cupboard was really just half a shelf housing dried basil and mild curry powder, suddenly that forgotten corner of the kitchen was playing host to harissa and sumac and saffron.

I have half a shelf of books on mushrooms and toadstools, including a couple of the glossy magazine-style guides that appear in French newsagents every September, so that the wild-mushroom-mad Froggies can hoover up their cepes and their chanterelles from the autumnal woods without being fatally poisoned by the odd mistakenly-gathered death cap.

Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket chain, has half its shelf space and 100,000 employees outside the U.K. Its stores are to be found in a dozen markets, including China and Japan.

"It allows the theory to continue to exist, to continue to be available — it's not just some old dusty books on the half-price shelf".