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How to pronounce “shelve”
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Pronunciation guide for shelve
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of shelve with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?
This is why I believe we need to shelve the never-ending War on Terror,
- Definition summary
- (transitive)
Example 1 of 7
How to pronounce shelve
Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?

This is why I believe we need to shelve the never-ending War on Terror,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “shelve”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
- [Noun]
- (archaic) A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
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