Of uncertain origin), the lower edge of a sleeve turned back to show an ornamental border, or with an addition of lace or trimming; now used chiefly of the stiff bands of linen worn under the coat-sleeve either loose or attached to the shirt.
He took the paper collar that was pinned to the sleeve of the coat and cautiously slipped it under his rough beard, looking with timid expectancy into the cracked, splashed glass that hung over the bench.
A gentle pull at Oliver's sleeve made him look round.
Oliver's not being quite so handy, he received a dab on the sleeve of his jacket, where it remained to torment him for many a long day, by its overpowering perfume, which nothing could get rid of.
I am sure Mrs Gridley was laughing in her sleeveat you all the time.
Our method of supporting the shaft and Loose Pulley together with the perfect lubrication of both prevents the wearing of the shaft, sleeve or Loose Pulley.
Oil passes through holes in the bottom of thissleeve and lubricates the Loose Pulley.
Go to bed in sight of a fire, and hang your wet sleeve before it to dry.
Fecket, waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both vest and jacket).
On firing, the plunger-sleeve is forced to the rear and remains in this position during flight.
The girl was perfectly aware how weak and arrogant her mistress was, and she laughed in her sleeve at the quarrels she saw looming in the future.
The sight of that empty sleeve sadly takes from the joy of seeing you.
Like the feldwebel, he had his sleeve between his teeth.
Then he took thesleeve of his tunic between his teeth and hid his face.
That she-dog has a trick of some kind up hersleeve yet!
She laid her hand on the sleeve of his coat, and stood by him.
She put her small fingers lightly on the sleeve of his coat; they slid till they found his hands that hung clenched before him.
One hand had gripped the sleeve of his night-dress, trying to hold it up in a little wad on the shoulder, the blood pouring down the arm.
But the lace on her flowing sleeve catching on the umbrella handle of a stout German coming the other way, she tore it half across.
So Adela came out, the wet sleeve still on her arm; but she had gotten out of the rest of the waist.
Polly's sleeve to make her hear, for Polly and Jasper were hanging on the description that the man in attendance was pouring forth.
His clothes were all covered with mud and one sleeve of his coat was torn partly out.
Just then Gladys pulled at my sleeve and dragged me over to some girls we knew and we were swept out with the crowd to the sidewalk.
He waited now, rubbing the small metal mirror absently on the loose sleeveof his shirt, waiting for a reply.
Her long braids had shaken loose, and a sleeve was torn, leaving one slender arm bare.
I'll be right behind you with this revolver in my sleeve and if anything goes wrong, two bullets will go through the small of your back.
His bayonet and the barrel of his rifle were red clear up to the stock and he did not at first realize that the blood dripping from his left sleeve was his own.
Had the matters at stake not been so grave, had she been more certain of the issue, she might have put her own sleeve to a similar purpose.
She soon guessed that Blake perceived that he was being watched, and she imagined how he must be smiling up his sleeve at her simplicity.
Lewis pulls up his shirtsleeve and shows his white skin.
Jesse approached and touched the sleeve of his Uncle Dick.
She takes from her right sleeve a handkerchief and wipes her eyes.
Rubbing his sleeveacross his face, he abruptly turned and said: "I needs a plug of terbaccy.
Mrs. MacFarlane was extracting a handkerchief from her sleeve and she smiled wanly at the girl to intimate that the matter of the toast really did not weigh in the least.
We could see portions of him through his clothes, and a sleeve of his shirt was not.
I'll wear it in a sling, but I want my coat sleeve on, and I'm going to have it on.
Like the sleeve of a clergyman's gown, the lower end is gathered somewhere, and the fullness gracefully over-falls.
The edge of the sleeve is left plain, but there is a ruche of satin round the middle of the sleeve, just below the elbow.
But Gawain had gone back to the court and had told the King and all the rest that the knight who wore the red sleevewas Lancelot.
Then Gawain said that he would hunt for him, but he rode all around Camelot and could not find him, and then he went back to the King' and told him that he feared that the knight who wore the red sleeve was dead.
And Elaine blushed again with happiness, and she went away and brought him a sleeve of red silk, all embroidered over with pearls.
A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleeve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
