How to pronounce shelf
Listen to shelf in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“shelf” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 476 American · 454 British · 271 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And then we end up with shelf after shelf after shelf of lady's slipper orchid seedlings.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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continental shelf, legal continental shelf to the 200 meter isabath.
Geoscience Australia · hear it here
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This has a shelf year shelf life of six years.
NTSB · hear it here
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low-lying shelf low-lying continental shelf known as the Sunda shelf and it's hypothesized that as a
Université de La Réunion · hear it here
Why real speech
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