1 This book is cheap because it was shop-soiled.

2 If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop-soiled ships.

3 If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop-soiled ships, how many shipshape shop-soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stock?

4 The salesman tried to palm us off with some shop-soiled sheets.

5 We pay our bills with it. And our creditors not only accept it, they also obligingly invest it in American securities, including our slightly shop-soiled mortgage-backed securities.

6 The salesman tried to palm us off with some shop-soiled shirts.

7 The salesman tried to palm us off with some shop-soiled clothes.