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Example sentences for "shelving"

Lexicographically close words:
shelters; sheltie; shelve; shelved; shelves; shelvy; shemesh; sheng; shent; shentleman
  1. On arriving at the cliff, a seaman observed his tracks on the soft clay of the shelving brow, and soon proclaimed his discovery of the puma in a hole or small cave just below, by the exclamation of 'There he is!

  2. A long while he gazed with eyelids puckered, scanning the shelving and stretching expanse.

  3. He pointed to the floor, but it was then that I observed, in a corner, after the fashion of a three-cornered cupboard, a rough shelving that had been made there.

  4. To right, the east, was a wooded hill, parallel with which we now rode; and to left cliffs climbed upwards with shelving places here and there on their front, very rugged and savage.

  5. This was, however, too novel a thought to take easy root, and he forgot it again as they began creeping downward along the narrow, shelving path to the park.

  6. He walked along the shelving edge of this bank from one end of the clearing to the other, to make sure that the winding bed of the stream below did not hold what he sought for.

  7. Past all dangers the girl drove with skilful hand, now encouraging her team with her low voice, now restraining them, where their load crowded upon them over slippery, shelving rocks, with strong pulls and sharp command.

  8. Often the way was rough with boulders that had never been blasted out,--sometimes steeply shelving where the gorge was deepest and the precipice sheerest.

  9. His eyes flashed a sudden fire under their shelving brows, and his right hand clenched itself involuntarily.

  10. The sound was repeated, and, descending the shelving bank a few steps he sought to discover the whereabouts of this piteous cry for help.

  11. I don't like those shelving lines: I like lines that go up, as in The Banners, that all flowed out of darkness upwards, towards the sun!

  12. And Cornelie would not have him finish the unconscious woman: no, she didn't like those shelving lines.

  13. She is walking so unconsciously down that shelving line .

  14. Lavie looked several times anxiously at the thatch overhead, which could not have resisted the deluge incessantly poured upon it, if it had not been for the shelving rocks which nearly formed a second roof above it.

  15. Lavie then seized the longest rope, and running up the low, shelving shore, secured the end to a huge mass of drift-wood which lay just above high-water mark.

  16. The rapids at the village of Vienna are caused by shelving strata of this limestone.

  17. The stream is a mere brook, coming over the shelving sand rock, which is a part of the precipitous range of the Pictured Rocks.

  18. A rotting log in the midst of the debris of the stream, in a wild tangle of underbrush and shelving rocks, showed fox-fire and glowed in the glooms.

  19. There was a shelving descent from the base of the crag, and Jacob must needs have heed of the rocky depths beneath in treading the narrow ledge that led to a great cavernous niche in the face of the rock.

  20. Three men, heated with running, wet to the skin by the heavy rain, came to the shelving bank of the Red River.

  21. By a tacit and mutual understanding they shambled down the long shelving bank.

  22. But fix thine eyes Intently through the air, and thou shalt see A multitude before thee seated, each Along the shelving grot.

  23. He extinguished all the lights but his own, and disappeared behind a ledge of shelving rock.

  24. Wrapped in our blankets, we slept by a roaring fire, under a shelving rock, in a thicket of black firs.

  25. On Mitchell’s Peak it is advisable to remain all night, and a shelving rock, a short distance down from the summit, will furnish excellent quarters after wood is brought for a great fire before it.

  26. As she chased the Moor the Philadelphia ran on a shelving rock that was part of a long reef.

  27. Clark hunted about for shelter, and at length found a ravine protected by shelving rocks under which they could take refuge.

  28. I bade the men to row with all their force Until we came before the shelving ledge.

  29. In a dry time the sheep can always reach the water, the pond having no banks, by the shelving formation of the bottom.

  30. Apparently this was fordable only at the one spot, and the steep shelving bank, itself strongly in favour of defenders posted at the top, could be made doubly formidable by means of a stockade.

  31. There he waded across, clambered up the bank, and ordered his men on the other side to cut a new path down the shelving bank opposite the ford he had so opportunely discovered.

  32. Then he strode on and did not falter till he reached the huge shelving cliffs.

  33. Even the unsleeping sea was silent, the tide low and waveless, no more than a languid ripple far out upon the shelving sands.

  34. He could hear the soft stealthy plunge and following rush of the sea up the white shelving beach.

  35. All woodwork, whether window frames, doors, or shelving should be thus lined.

  36. But this is all; any additional shelving will be inexpedient.

  37. Shelving offers great temptation for the accumulation of rubbish.

  38. It is best to limit the amount of shelving to what is actually necessary.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shelving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beveled; bias; biased; canting; inclined; inclining; leaning; listing; pitched; recumbent; sidelong; slant; slanted; slanting; sloping; tilting; tipped; tipping; tipsy