Sentence examples for stayed on the shelf from inspiring English sources

The Mama Chicago songs stayed on the shelf until Kate Westbrook and I had the idea of using them as the basis for a jazz cabaret, a form of music-theatre, incorporating improvisation, that we had been developing with the band.

Better that this Red Dawn had stayed on the shelf.

For me, the shocking thing about Barbara's case is the meat that killed her son stayed on the shelf for 16 days.

The Sanyo Katana was just one of those phones that just stayed on the shelves for way longer than anyone expected.

Foreign films, whose negatives were presumably safe elsewhere, stayed on the shelves.

"I keep thinking, 'why is it that it has stayed on the shelves?' The only thing I can think is that it's because two people who are hurt come to live together and heal each other," she reflects.

The record that Charles produced and played piano on, "Falling in Love Is Wonderful," is by critical accord Scott's finest, but it stayed on the shelves only a matter of weeks before Herman Lubinsky, the owner of Savoy, claimed an exclusive contract with Scott, and the record was pulled.

A spurt of warm weather meant winter clothing stayed on the shelves.

They should stay on the shelf".

They often stay on the shelf through opening day the next year, with a bump in sales around Christmas.

Either way, said the prolific memoirist, the judges did not want books that "stay on the shelf, half-read".