Sentence examples for in the shelf from inspiring English sources

I was 16 when my brother discovered Winsor McCay in the shelf of an English bookstore in Ginza, Tokyo.

"I thought of my adventure as Off-Road or Extreme Reading," Phyllis Rose writes in "The Shelf: From LEQ to LES," the latest stunt book, in which she reads through a more or less random shelf of library books.

Unlike many biblio-memoirists, she loves network television and is refreshingly un-nostalgic about print; in "The Shelf" she says that she prefers her e-reader to certain moldy paperbacks.

That's a whole epoch in the history of the Internet, and eons in the shelf life of consumer electronics; the chunky televisions Paik tinkered with, the building blocks for his most famous installations, are now obsolete.

And there is Belle & Sebastian's This Is Just a Modern Rock Song, which not only gives us literary references, it nods to a desire to appear bookish, too: "I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky/ I'm not as clever as Mark Twain," it runs, "I'll only buy a book for the way it looks/ And then I stick it in the shelf again".

"[I wondered] if I put this little radio chip into the lipstick and if I have another radio that can talk to the lipstick in the shelf then I will know exactly where my lipstick is," he says.To persuade his colleagues to pursue his idea, Ashton tapped into the burgeoning excitement in the office for the world wide web, email and instant information and entitled his pitch "The Internet of Things".

Multi-core CPUs have become standard components in off-the-shelf PC hardware.

The current notebook lives in the shelves beside the chair, along with several dictionaries.

It collects in the shelves and rustles under the desks and zaps people like static electricity.

Others circumnavigated, avoiding other browsers by a wide berth that was impossible in the shelves.

And the writing is on the wall — or more precisely in the shelves — for wistful enterprises like his.