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How To Use Shirtsleeves In A Sentence

  • ‘I'm sorry, I'm such a disgrace,’ Sam sobbed into her brother and her hands clung to his shirtsleeves.
  • Supper consisted of chicory served with the water it had been boiled in, to which was added some oil; there was also bread and wine, then chicken and afterwards poached eggs which they call eggs in their shirtsleeves. Diversions in Sicily
  • Buck Mulligan stood on a stone , in shirtsleeves, his unclipped tie rippling over his shoulder.
  • In the hot noonday sun, students sat on the grass, and faculty in shirtsleeves conducted class.
  • Both were in shirtsleeves, the room stuffy even with the french windows half-open on to the lawn. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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  • All the photographs show him in an apron and shirtsleeves, surrounded by his paintings, with the television (a black-and-white set) and the radio both on at the same time.
  • If long-sleeved shirts are worn, the sleeves of the jacket should cover the shirtsleeves.
  • Thus, a miller in apron and shirtsleeves would not be confused with a magistrate in frock coat, knee breeches, and silk stockings.
  • Women wore bright sleeveless summer dresses, and the men had their suit jackets slung over their shoulders and their shirtsleeves rolled up. AFTERMATH
  • in hot weather they dined in their shirtsleeves
  • in your shirtsleeves
  • Thus, a miller in apron and shirtsleeves would not be confused with a magistrate in frock coat, knee breeches, and silk stockings.
  • Flapping his hands out of the capacious shirtsleeves, he brought them to his mouth, paused another instant, and then piped out: ‘Release!’
  • A man, slightly dishevelled, bullishly confident in shirtsleeves, running things. Times, Sunday Times
  • Doran shed his cardigan and sat at his dusty patio table in shirtsleeves, his fair arms freckling in the first real sun of the new year. Two Poets
  • He's visibly agitated, gesturing with passion, darting looks out the window, and adjusting his monogrammed shirtsleeves as he searches for his words.
  • The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
  • He looked exhausted and frantic, his shirtsleeves rolled up to his elbows and little beads of sweat on his forehead.
  • He pockets his cuff links, then briskly, with a snapping sound, rolls his shirtsleeves to his elbows.
  • Still, there is nothing like old fashioned grassroots support, the kind that makes you roll-up-your shirtsleeves and get your hands dirty.
  • Jude entered the room, rolling his shirtsleeves up to his elbows as he always did, ‘What's that, you say?’
  • He removed his cuff links and placed them on the table next to the decanter and folded back the cuffs of his shirtsleeves before picking up his whisky glass once more.
  • Hagrid was sitting in his shirtsleeves at his scrubbed wooden table; his boarhound, Fang, had his head in Hagrid's lap. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • His blue shirtsleeves were rolled up to his elbows and his bandanna was jaunty about his neck.
  • Three chevrons on the shirtsleeves marked him as being a sergeant.
  • These men with weather beaten faces and broad shoulders went about their business quietly, their shirtsleeves rolled up over their muscular forearms.
  • Become part of the team, roll up the shirtsleeves, and be prepared to get dirt on your hands.
  • Her hands are all red now, and her shirtsleeves too.
  • Bobby is greeted by a sea of pink faces, half-drunk men in their shirtsleeves, downing chota pegs at a great rate.
  • For prices ranging from five dollars to 50, young women lift skin-tight tops and men roll up their shirtsleeves to get their bodies inked with temporary tattoos, which last several weeks.
  • Ben took off his coat so that he could sit at table in white shirtsleeves, waistcoat and silk string tie.
  • Jamie rolled up his shirtsleeves to his elbows and gave a small sigh, rubbing his head again.

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