How to Use shirtsleeve in a Sentence

shirtsleeve

noun
  • Macron was in his shirtsleeves, an arm slung around the back of a black leather sofa.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • At the dim far end of the room, their backs toward us, sat six bald old men in their shirtsleeves, around a loud television.
    — Annie Dillard, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2015
  • Sitting in the restaurant, Litwin pinches his arm through his shirtsleeve.
    — Soumya Karlamanglastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • His jacket was off and his shirtsleeves were rolled, revealing his tan, muscular arms.
    — Kate White, Cosmopolitan, 3 Mar. 2010
  • Both were in their shirtsleeves and completely drenched, holding silver pistols.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
  • In the music video for the song, Underwood performs on stage wearing giant diaphanous shirtsleeves.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 May 2018
  • Red-faced from the driving wind, Petersen is a real Icelander, outside in shirtsleeves despite the cold.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The idea was to envision what baseball uniforms would look like in 2027, which meant backward caps, untucked backs and, uh, no shirtsleeves?
    — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • In a simpler gesture, those women could head into the House of Representatives with their shirtsleeves rolled up.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • But last weekend, dressed in shirtsleeves and rubber waders, the freshman Democratic congressman from Turlock tried to buck that image.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Boyd was wearing a light-brown corduroy jacket with elbow patches that struck me as appropriately literary, and Wheeler was in blue shirtsleeves that matched his eyes.
    — Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In one of the closest towns, Kulusuk, the morning temperature reached 52 degrees Fahrenheit — warm enough for shirtsleeves.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Shuttle astronauts would wear shirtsleeves during takeoff and landing instead of the bulky spacesuits of the Gemini and Apollo days.
    — Trudy E. Bell, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2016
  • In one of the closest towns, Kulusuk, the morning temperature reached a shirtsleeve 52 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • This summer, the humble shirtsleeve blew up—literally and figuratively speaking.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • On May 1 in Kiev, as invisible fallout rained down, children in shirtsleeves marched past reviewing stands that usually held Soviet officials.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 7 June 2019
  • Summer is a time for night baseball games in shirtsleeves and shorts, for dining al fresco at your favorite restaurant and finishing a hot summer evening with an Italian ice from Johnnie’s in Elmwood Park.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • At a union hall in San Diego last November, Gavin Newsom—the tall, coiffed governor of California, and, since last year, one of the Democrats’ best hopes for pulling together a shattered country—stood to one side in white shirtsleeves and waited for his turn to address the crowd.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026

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