(1) His paperback, PWA: Looking Aids in the Face, is one of the most inspiring books I have on my bookshelf.
(2) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
(3) At one point it looks as if he's tumbling backwards, but he defies gravity and makes it to the bookshelf, propelled by simple belief.
(4) When I heard that she had died, I promptly went back to my bookshelf and spent my Saturday night re-reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, and it was, if anything, even more wonderful than I remembered.
(5) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
(6) Don't get me wrong: I would like more than anyone to see the report consigned, as the learned judge feared, to a middle bookshelf in an academic's office.
(7) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
(8) Brandis – who spent more than $15,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a new bookshelf in his parliament house office in 2014 – said he did not believe that the science of climate change was settled but he knew how to follow a logical argument.
(9) "I think it's a great delivery method for all kinds of authors and artists to explore and be seen in, not the bookshelf of a Walmart that the old guidelines turned it into."
(10) An occupational health "bookshelf" reference list is appended.
(11) On the right, on a bookshelf, was a framed copy of Francis’s letter.
(12) Have an incredibly pricey (£1,295) bookshelf on me, Ann Clwyd.
(13) You can now find an Ikea glass, bookshelf or shower curtain in practically every British home.
(14) He doesn’t, even though he’s just finished a nice bookshelf for his London friend.
(15) The writer Somerset Maugham, who in 1949 announced "the subjunctive mood is in its death throes", might be surprised to see my son Freddie's bookshelf, which contains If I Were a Pig … (Jellycat Books, 2008).
(16) The brown-skinned glamour dolls like the one on my bookshelf are always missing.
(17) Applying its much-praised “documentary theatre” technique – where topics are developed through intense journalistic-style investigation – the group started off “by asking which of us had read it and who had a copy lurking at the back of a bookshelf or in their attic”, Haug said.
(18) Praise God, I live a stable life, and God has blessed me with a pious wife, and she has blessed me with a son who I gave your name, Usamah, and a daughter who I named after the mother, Khayriyah.” Osama bin Laden's bookshelf: Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward, and jihad Read more Khadijh, one of Bin Laden’s daughters, describes the difficulties of communicating with the world’s most wanted man.
(19) Pete wondered if he'd stumbled into a parallel universe when he saw a copy of On Being A Jewish Feminist on my bookshelf.
(20) But this relative impotence is no excuse for failing to hammer home the point that our universities are being forced down, in the title of a famous book by Friedrich Hayek (perhaps on the bookshelf of the higher education minister, Jo Johnson?
Shelf
Definition:
(v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
(v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
(v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
(v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(2) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(3) The development of the hydrogelic occlusive device called the P-block is described including developmental steps of the design of the device as well as the experience gained concerning the hydrogel of the device, shelf life, animal and human toxicology, insertion techniques, analgesia, check-up for retention in situ, actual efficacy of the method, mode of action of the device, complication rates, patient acceptance, continuation rates, possible reversibility and future perspectives of the method.
(4) Formulation often has a dramatic effect on degradation of proteins during the freeze-drying process as well as impacting on the "shelf-life" stability of the freeze-dried product.
(5) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(6) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
(7) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(8) The absence of membrane proteins and chemical stability of SFH and phospholipids promises long shelf-life.
(9) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(10) Midline epithelial cells cease DNA synthesis 24-36 h before shelf elevation and contact, become active in the synthesis of cell surface glycoproteins, and subsequently manifest morphological signs of necrosis.
(11) It has been suggested that head posture changes, tongue movements and jaw opening reflexes are required to enable palatal shelf elevation to occur in normal cranio-facial development.
(12) Allografts are often freeze dried to increase shelf storage time and sterilized with ethylene oxide.
(13) The shelf procedure provides a buttress of bone for later reconstructive surgery such as cup or total hip arthroplasty.
(14) When tested in another task (recovering food pellets from a horizontal shelf accessible through a narrow slit below the ceiling of the test box) same rats displayed identical (45%) and opposite (15%) preference or were ambidextrous (40%).
(15) In one case this was a dense shelf-like mass of echoes extending downward from the basal portion of the interventricular septum toward the mid-portion of the anterior mitral leaflet with corresponding systolic anterior motion of the mitral leaflet.
(16) Eight brands of composite resin, including paste-paste, powder-liquid and light-activated systems, as well as three glass ionomer cements were evaluated over a period of twelve months with respect to shelf-life and suitability for use in a tropical environment.
(17) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(18) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
(19) There are now standard off-the-shelf products that provide the kind of digital production tools that simply didn't exist five years ago.
(20) It is concluded that the shelf life of iced whole cod can be predicted using this model but not that of vacuum-packed fillets because of the greater variability of bacterial activity in packaged fish.