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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On a shirtsleeve, Ruiz wore a purple-and-white ribbon — an homage to the disappeared — while a white rose poked out from the top of a bag.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025
New Year’s brought shirtsleeve weather to the U.S.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023
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
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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