shelflike
- a word derived from shelf.
Example Sentences
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About the size of carpenter’s plane, it consists of a shelflike unit holding a length of square pipe.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020
There, with the help of guides, you make your way up a cliffside to a shelflike clearing.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012
Palais Bourbon's tiny shelflike visitors' boxes were crowded; most of the diplomatic corps was there.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was Subbayah, hanging shelflike to the top of the draped stick.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came to rest on one of the shelflike circumvoluting rings, some twenty-five feet above the ground.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry
