Scandals have increasingly short shelf lives these days.

If "Love in a Dead Language" isn't a freestanding rope, it's a major laughing matter and deserves space on the short, high shelf of literary wonders.

It was a small, well-furnished library, with a towering row of short shelves set in a niche.

The prisoner could now see that he was standing on a short and narrow shelf of stone, all that remained of his cell's floor.

To make the store feel less intimidating, Home Depot has made the shelves shorter - and beige instead of orange.

I guess that comes with making such a short shelf life product.

For a short shelf you only need two braces, spaced no more than 32 inches apart.

With such a short shelf life, how can significant reform ever stick?

GIVEN the frequency of changes in tax law, most tax books have short shelf lives - usually just one filing season.

Why do new operas, after the hoopla of their premieres, suffer such short shelf lives thereafter?