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Example sentences for "shirt sleeves"

  • Tinker's shock head and my shirt sleeves, his protuberant eyes took on a glassy look, he gulped audibly, his knees bent and he set down his burden with a jingling crash.

  • Finally he took off his coat and sat down in shirt sleeves on the only sofa in the room.

  • At the other table, which was Falk's, sat a man in shirt sleeves, his head covered by a black silk cap of the kind affected by the communards.

  • A man in shirt sleeves, presumably Del Snafflin the proprietor, shaving a man who had a large Adam's apple.

  • But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirt sleeves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better opinion; carried through; common right; grated bread; heavenly life; her people; little pile; man whom; many wounded; metres long; neither more nor less; night attack; order the; other occasions; police station; protect the; room furniture; shirt sleeves; small distance; stand here; telling you; three plates