Sentence examples for which shelf from inspiring English sources

Each book's index card told you which shelf housed the corresponding volume.

The center will put New York at the forefront of design in "open storage," a growing worldwide archival trend in which shelf after visible shelf of objects is arrayed for public viewing in so-called dense displays.

Getting to know your oven is important: figure out which shelf has the most even temperature, so you don't get spotting, and work out the exact temperature you should be cooking at.

One school is represented by the American writer Lawrence Weschler, whom Domoslawski quotes as saying: "What does it matter which shelf we put The Emperor and Shah of Shahs on: fiction or non-fiction?

Sales assistants at Comet, an electrical-goods chain you mentioned as one recent casualty on the British high street, barely knew which shelf something was on, let alone any technical details about the product.Paul Davis LondonTwilight zoneSIR – The waning crescent moon you depicted on your cover "Has the Arab spring failed?" (July 13th) appears only when the sun rises.

In Libération, Philippe Azoury describes the experience of watching the movie as being plunged cold into the brain of a total nut who knows exactly which shelf he put the VHS tape of who-knows-what junk on but can't quite remember whether Hitler really existed or whether he was invented by Chaplin in "The Great Dictator".

But all this stops abruptly at the Pilot Inn; the sand is replaced by a vast shingle beach, which shelves steeply and has dangerous undercurrents, unsafe for swimming.

Most owners of retail stores can tell you what their last 10 customers bought and which shelves they browsed, he said, but when it comes to their Web sites, many owners have no idea.

He knows, with something between confidence and certainty, which shelves the trout roam in March and April, which coves hold perch in May, and which weeds and piles of rock attract bass from June through September.

Truth is, with libraries there's always a decision of what books end up being placed on which shelves, what kind of literature is promoted, and which books ends up in storage.

The work presents a meticulously fashioned fantasy of a library in which shelves have become obsolete, and books, like examples of living creatures, are displayed in illusionistic dioramas that evoke those of the American Museum of Natural History.