adjourn, decline, drop, go uphill, incline, list, protract, rake, shift off, stave off, sway, waive
Definitionv. hold back to a later time
Last update: July 16, 2015
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Plans for a new theatre have had to be shelved because of lack of money. [Please select]
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The books have been shelved in the wrong order. [Please select]
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This effort to shelve the dispute was quite in vain. [Please select]
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"You promised you'd look into it to-day; you know you've shelved it for a week already, and Craig, Burnage are rather clamoring for an answer." [Please select]
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Love and marriage were shelved thus, in his opinion, let alone lesser and more ephemeral joys. [Please select]
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Taine, Louise, and Jim tried to shelve me--but I fooled 'em.' [Please select]
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As for me, I had troubles enough then, and had become used in some sort to being shelved. [Please select]
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The affair of the pay isn't pressing; we'll shelve it to another night.' [Please select]
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"We won't bother about it now, but we won't shelve it altogether." [Please select]
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