Sentence examples for shelf upon shelf from inspiring English sources
In the aisles, he examines shelf upon shelf of ammunition.
Not hundreds of pieces, but thousands — shelf upon shelf of drawings, paintings and sculptures.
Interestingly, the show opens with shelf upon shelf of all the medications Maciunas used in one year, all his light bulbs, all the fruit juice he drank.
Yet here you'll find shelf upon shelf of large jars filled with turgid liquids and strange manmade specimens; pages torn from books and magazines; a telephone cord; chunks of pink insulation; a smiley face.
It was months since the last heavy rains had replenished the land, and, even so, the falls were spectacular — shelf upon shelf of interweaving cascades roaring into a deep, clear pool.
In every toy store in Paris, you find shelf upon shelf of precisely rendered and particularized Imperial chasseurs and drummer boys and dragoons and grenadiers--the Grande Armee in miniature, bayonets fixed, ready to charge.
When I first saw the memes attacking Kondo for urging us to "keep only thirty books," my heart ached as I thought of my shelves (upon shelves) of books, each of which carries not just the printed word but a story of how I came to find and love that book.
There were shelves upon shelves of these at the local bookstore, and in time, by ones and twos, they accumulated into a leaning tower on our dining room table.
Libertine, too, has shelves upon shelves of hardback volumes, if of somewhat more dubious renown: "The Good Life," "Ya-Yas in Bloom, "Nanny Diaries," "The Bridges of Madison County," and two copies of "I am Charlotte Simmons".
Walking past shelves upon shelves of first editions, which eventually became seminal works, by authors such as W. B. Yeats, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett, to name a few, is absolutely spellbinding.
In spite of the pretense, the place is hard to hate; the atmosphere is more congenial and subdued than you might expect, and whatever lingering umbrage the insecure diner may feel can be quickly ameliorated by tequila; there are shelves upon shelves of it, some six dozen flavors in all.
