How to use "shelf" in a sentence

He fetched them from a shelf and gave them to Valjean.

I took my gloves from the shelf of the car

I saw some string on a shelf and an old knife

More than a hundred paperbacks were ranked alphabetically on a five-shelf bookcase

One of the models was flung from its shelf, then two more, then three more, then another, until all nine lay in a pile on the floor.

They came over the rise onto a plateau, an enormous shelf carved in the side of the mountain.

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

'On a shelf in my cottage.'

'I think I saw it on a shelf in his cottage.'

Under a shelf we found some bottled beer, and there were two bags of green beans and some lettuce

The parish clerk took a register from a shelf

As the parish clerk put the register back on its shelf, I said, 'You spoke of old copies of the register