shelved; shelving
1
: to furnish with shelves
2
: to place on a shelf
shelve books
3
a
: to remove from active service
b
: to put off or aside
shelve a project
: to slope in a formation like a shelf
shelver
noun
Examples of shelve in a Sentence
The books were shelved according to category.
let's shelve the project for now
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In the interview, the director, writer and actor recounts how the movie was saved by filmmaker and actor Alessandra Williams, who raised money to buy the film from Miramax earlier this year, decades after it was acquired and shelved by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
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Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Promising trials are shelved all the time, sometimes for reasons beyond their results.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
So far in 2025, 21 festivals have been shelved in the U.S., including five in California and the 19-year-old Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, due to low ticket sales and soaring productions costs.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
All the turmoil was temporarily shelved at Harvard University in Cambridge on Thursday as the Class of 2025 graduated.
—Nancy Lane, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
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Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Promising trials are shelved all the time, sometimes for reasons beyond their results.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
So far in 2025, 21 festivals have been shelved in the U.S., including five in California and the 19-year-old Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, due to low ticket sales and soaring productions costs.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
All the turmoil was temporarily shelved at Harvard University in Cambridge on Thursday as the Class of 2025 graduated.
—Nancy Lane, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for shelve
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“Shelve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shelve. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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