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shelves

noun as in jutting, flat area or piece

verb as in defer, postpone

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This return scam involved purchasing broken electronics off the auction site and then buying new items off store shelves.

On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.

Once you fill in the book, you send it back where it joins the others on the shelves and travels with the annual touring trip.

Howell remembers “how hard it was to find black Barbies on store shelves” as a child.

The men preside over three display cases, each with three shelves, seven comic books per shelf.

Look at those long rows of pewter dishes and platters that grace the shelves.

He carefully upset three dinner pails from the shelves in the rear as he hung up his hat.

Some shelves had been put up along one side of the stall, and they were piled with a lot of grimy-looking books.

Welcome jerked himself away from the book, whirled around on his wooden pin and pointed his knife at the book-shelves.

After breakfast fixed up shack—shelves, benches, tools, etc.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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