Oliver Wendell Holmes somewhere analyzes the rapid disintegration of the substantial fortunes of his day and shows how it is, in fact, but "three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
A man in shirtsleeves was milking a cow behind a tiny barn.
The sudden jarring and tilting of the water-logged boat, a sound of rasping timbers, the swarming of men in shirtsleeves and blue trousers around her, seemed to rouse her momentarily, but she again fainted away.
As the two rival processions passed on the third Sunday, Jo Bateman, who had been in the habit of reclining on that day in his shirtsleeves under a tree, with a novel in his hand, looked gloomily after them.
To the front fence a dozen or more riding horses were hitched, flicking their tails at the flies; and on the gallery men in their shirtsleeves were grouped.
In his shirtsleeves he climbed into the buggy, and the constable turned his horse and clucked him into a trot.
There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeveswatching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket.
Mr Adelson answered the door inshirtsleeves and suspenders, unshaved and bleary.
Mr Adelson answered in the same shirtsleeves and suspenders I'd seen him in that Christmas, an age ago, when my Mama dragged me to his cottage.
One man in his shirtsleeves was standing with his shoulders against the base of the stairway, head thrown well back, trying to staunch the flow of blood from his nose.
Lydman had started for the elevator, in shirtsleeves as he was and carrying a cup of tea in one hand and a bloody handkerchief.
In answer to her summons George appeared at once, collarless and in shirtsleeves with the drowsiness of an interrupted nap in his eyes.
He would come in tired and silent from his run and, after sitting about in shirtsleeves and socks long enough to smoke a pipe, would slip quietly off to bed.
We had passed from furs to shirtsleeves in a morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirtsleeves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
