Sentence examples for shelf i from inspiring English sources

That was the shelf I gravitated towards.

I return home to an email from my shelf: I am on my way.

"I want chairs, I want a shelf, I want a television and I want a stereo".

Instead of perching at the shelf, I sat at his table.

On a nearby shelf, I found a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black for $83,000,000,000,000.

The Winner's Curse brings something to the shelf I had never seen before, a wholly invented world without any magic.

In "My Life," a wry ages-of-man poem that appeared in Strand's 1970 collection "Darker," the poet starts life as his mother's doll (" 'Talk, talk,' she would beg"), only to become his wife's volume of Kierkegaard ("My wife took me down from the shelf. / I lay in her arms.

The passage in which he meets his biological father, a bohemian Sydney actor, for the first time in his 20s, is genuinely poignant: "I found myself getting sort of angry … There on shelf after shelf were the exact same books as those I had bought and read myself … If I had only known him, I might just have picked his books down from the shelf … I was forced to make myself up as I went along".

"It doesn't matter that I can't reach up to the top shelf -- I just keep stuff in the oven -- I don't use the oven anymore anyway.

I didn't know how I would get a bottle of jam on the shelf -- I was a music major in college and had once held a job as the assistant organist for the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church -- but I took it.

"He said, 'I'm selling it faster than I can put it on the shelf.' I said, 'Man, that just don't make any sense to me to ship milk, what is it, 1,000 miles?' I said: 'We can do that right here.