Sentence examples for onto a shelf from inspiring English sources

I toss the tags from new clothes onto a shelf in there, because some of them give care instructions or have extra yarn or buttons attached.

Its clash is with Canada, and concerns St Pierre & Miquelon, a group of tiny islands little more than 25km from Newfoundland that front onto a shelf blessed with oil deposits.

But I find real merit in the new collapsible strainers and colanders that can be flattened enough to slip onto a shelf or in a drawer, or to hang unobtrusively.

Generally, when mail enters a sorting center, it is jostled from the moment it arrives in a white plastic bin until the moment it drops onto a shelf and is swept into a tray, bound for its final destination.

Hamilton is a senior group leader in research and development who enjoys orchestrating the progression of a product from the seed of an idea, through pilot-line tests and commercial-scale trials, and onto a shelf at a local supermarket.

After some many months in the works, the BlackBerry 8900 (otherwise known as "Javelin") has finally made its way out of the labs and onto a shelf near you.

Before he goes to school each morning, he rolls up his mat and hoists it onto a storage shelf.

Toby O'Rorke, a partner in the New York architectural firm of Messana O'Rorke, avoided that issue in a client's loft in Chelsea by simply slipping a nine-inch Sharp flat-screen set onto a bathroom shelf, right beside the towels.

After one stretch, when I crawled up onto a narrow shelf and collapsed at his feet, he said, "Nick, does your wife know you're doing this?" And then we were on top, the slope below us dropping off into a foggy void.

If I were an activist looking for a meme to mock the denial of free expression in China, I'd have found a potent one in "Doctor Strange" — a shot of Wong (played by Benedict Wong), fierce keeper of the great library of mystical knowledge, putting a book in chains and hoisting it onto a high shelf, out of reach.

The use of the term product in the instructions may have affected the size ratings and the size descriptions because product might imply an object that fits onto a store shelf.