The 10-inch-deep shelf up top is a great place for placing plants, picture frames, keys, lamps, or any other odds and ends the space might require, too.
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The empty supermarket shelves and shortages of medical supplies of recent months have driven home the fact that supply chain stability is not just a business issue.
COVID-19 and climate change expose the dangers of unstable supply chains|matthewheimer|August 27, 2020|Fortune
Even when you’re anxious, you’re delivering those packages, stocking those shelves, and doing all that essential work so that all of us can keep moving forward.
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It’s not the first product to be torn from shelves, physical or otherwise.
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You can add robe hooks to the back of the door and install a hotel towel shelf above the commode where towels are out of the way but easily accessible.
Living large in small spaces|Valerie Blake|August 8, 2020|Washington Blade
And much of it, unlike Pappy, is right there on the shelf, humbly, quietly waiting to be tried.
The Cult of Pappy van Winkle|Eric Felten|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But how much easier, he says with disdain, for those who just buy whiskey off the shelf and market it.
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But others argue that its shelf life is longer than we might think.
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A military helmet that the artist himself wore on the Maidan occupied an important spot on the shelf.
Making Art Out of Ukraine’s Bullets and Barricades|Anna Nemtsova|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was the first store where I saw my first book displayed on the shelf.
How I Write: David Baldacci|Noah Charney|March 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then he would light his pipe or his cigar and take from the shelf the uppermost copy of the pile of Daily Republicans there.
From Place to Place|Irvin S. Cobb
"He will melt if you leave him on that shelf near the hot stove," went on the cook.
The Story of a Candy Rabbit|Laura Lee Hope
The morning of the 9th being clear, we set sail from this shelf, and took harbour within a great shelf called Shaab-al-Yadayn.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI|Robert Kerr
As a matter of course, they went in, and had a good meal off a loaf which the careless table-maid had left standing on the shelf.
The Animal Story Book|Various
It was on a shelf in the room where you slept—not the last time, but when you were here about three weeks ago.
Recollections of a Policeman|William Russell (aka Thomas Waters)
British Dictionary definitions for shelf
shelf
/ (ʃɛlf) /
nounpluralshelves (ʃɛlvz)
a thin flat plank of wood, metal, etc, fixed horizontally against a wall, etc, for the purpose of supporting objects
something resembling this in shape or function
the objects placed on a shelf, regarded collectivelya shelf of books
a projecting layer of ice, rock, etc, on land or in the seaSee also continental shelf
mininga layer of bedrock hit when sinking a shaft
archerythe part of the hand on which an arrow rests when the bow is grasped
See off the shelf
on the shelfput aside or abandoned: used esp of unmarried women considered to be past the age of marriage
verb
(tr)Australianslangto inform upon
Derived forms of shelf
shelflike, adjective
Word Origin for shelf
Old English scylfe ship's deck; related to Middle Low German schelf shelf, Old English scylf crag