Sentence examples for shelf around which from inspiring English sources

In the early nineties, the Army Corps of Engineers assigned a group of hydraulic specialists to measure the "bathymetry" of New York Harbor — the topography of the underwater shelf around which the city is built.

In the early nineties, he writes, the Army Corps of Engineers asked a number of hydraulic specialists to measure the "bathymetry," or topography, of the underwater shelf around which the city is built.

You stepped past the lime sapling by the front door, planted your feet on the green Westmorland slate floor, approached the desk, around which the book shelves radiated like the spokes of a bicycle, and a nice lady, usually with spectacles, would smile and asked if she could help.

Second, there are companies that have built businesses around the notion that top shelf (and cool) products can be created (and sold) by a workforce around which the company is built.

Still, demand is substantial for so-called shelf systems, which are built around CD players.

After I had looked around and complimented her, we sat on a couch, facing a small shelf on which stood the room's principal decoration, a china shepherd holding a lamb.

So, while The Entertainer may continue to be revived, especially around anniversaries of the Suez crisis, the library shelf to which it belongs now feels as rickety as the stages Archie Rice played.

To the south, off southern Vietnam, the shelf narrows and connects with the Sundra Shelf, which is one of the largest sea shelves in the world.

There's a shelf on which a few toys sit.

I saw the pale shelf on which we both stood.

Probably not, because it seems that "top shelf" liquor, really means top shelf -- which I couldn't reach.