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Definition of the day : « shelved »

  • verb defer, postpone
Example sentences :
  • At least I had shelved the question of what (if anything) I ought to do.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
  • She shelved the doubt as to whether Patsy was under a misapprehension.
  • Extract from : « Patsy » by S. R. Crockett
  • They forgot everything in their anxiety to get him shelved and silenced.
  • Extract from : « Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc » by Mark Twain
  • Elsewhere it shelved off into the steep slope down which Bas had carried him.
  • Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck
  • "I should say we were shelved," answered the captain, with a faint smile.
  • Extract from : « An Undivided Union » by Oliver Optic
  • The request was shelved, however, and still was unanswered in 1748.
  • Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
  • To go to the House of Lords was, as he thought and said, to be “shelved.”
  • Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook
  • Sheridan avowed that Congreve must be played unmutilated or be shelved.
  • Extract from : « Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 1 of 3) » by John Doran
  • At home Social and Political questions have been, for the time being, shelved.
  • Extract from : « The Annual Register 1914 » by Anonymous
  • After a full discussion of the affair, Enistor insisted that it should be shelved.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Perdition » by Fergus Hume