shirtsleeve
Britishnoun
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the sleeve of a shirt
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not wearing a jacket
Example Sentences
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Dry off the exterior with a towel or clean cloth, even your shirtsleeve — anything that’s absorbent.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Massimo glances down at his shirtsleeve, pinned up with a fish hook.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
The stretch marks beneath his sweat-stained shirtsleeve scribble a polygraph on the trunk of his bicep.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 12, 2017
On April Fools’ Day, he rolled up a shirtsleeve on “Fox & Friends” to reveal a faux tattoo of Winston Churchill, one of his heroes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2015
I grabbed hold of the Preacher’s shirtsleeve and mashed my face into it.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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