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    Use "sleeve" in a sentence

    sleeve example sentences

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    1. I shake my head as he rushes into his study … oh Stephen, Stephen, you do wear your heart on your sleeve! Chuckling, I take myself out of earshot … it would be far too tempting to listen in and Stephen didn’t close the study door properly


    2. It's a ten penny ticket and yellow's two cents inside but I bring a skin of green in a nightcoat, I don't wear the coat, I just have that skin in the sleeve, I say the coat's for later


    3. When it was dark inside he rolled up the left sleeve of his black t-shirt and clicked on the pen-light


    4. " A small, wiry man with sleeve tattoos and a vest didn't turn around as he spoke


    5. In the evening Louise phoned and informed me that the young man I liked had come into her office once again later, but all he did was laugh up his sleeve before her


    6. Not wasting any time, Joris, using a knife I didn’t realise he had, rips off the sleeve of Berndt’s tunic, and inspects the damage


    7. “I wonder what Jake has up his sleeve this time,” pondered Steve


    8. The groom, his back straight, is wearing an old-fashioned pin-striped suit, the jacket slouched across his shoulders like a cape with one sleeve in and one out


    9. She wiped them away with her sleeve and took a deep breath, 'Godfrey, P


    10. ‘Roll up your sleeve if you can … don’t scratch

    11. Not bothering to dismount, I pull up my sleeve … my forearm is a mass of red lumps, all burningly itching


    12. It must have crawled up your sleeve


    13. He had some tricks up his sleeve he'd learned from carrying freight so he was by far the best to make an estimate of what would fit where


    14. sleeve and lifted a slice of pizza


    15. “Yes, of course,” she said rolling up her sleeve, seemingly in deep thought


    16. The hunter put down his pint and pipe, and rolled up the sleeve of


    17. She gave the young man a moment to relinquish the sleeve still tight in his fingers then stated clearly and loud enough for his mates and anyone one else out at that time to hear, “You will keep a civil tongue in your foul little mouth, or there's more where that came from! Don't even begin to tell any one else about 'manners!' I don't know from whose foolish talk you picked up that misapplied epithet, but you will do well to remember this: you and your little friends are not even civilized humans yet and until you learn to treat others as you would be treated, I pity you the knocks and bruises in store for you, and not just at the hands of a 'woman' next time;” she glared at them one at a time, “Now get on back to your homes and don't even think of repeating such a foolish stunt!” she added


    18. “All I have is still open to you, Ava dear,” he said and she didn’t even flinch much when the thick-skinned grey hand came out of his voluminous sleeve to pat hers


    19. As Yassap turned to leave Petr grabbed his sleeve,


    20. Billy wipes a sleeve across his face and gets a noseful of his own odour, of dried bile and mohair

    21. He wipes his chin with the back of his sleeve, shudders, and looks up from the patch of grass that he has been staring at for the last few seconds, desperately trying to control the movement of his stomach muscles


    22. the sleeve of his shirt


    23. He got a good view of the massive bruise, for the first time when the movements slid her sleeve up her arm


    24. Kaitlyn neared and her hands just touched Olivia's sleeve


    25. Matt rose up unsteadily and wiped the tears away with his sleeve


    26. " he grabbed for her arm and pushed her sleeve up


    27. She pulled her arm free and pushed the sleeve back down, what business is it of his, she thought


    28. I mean I saw him in town – But that was this afternoon, what'd he want?" like she really thought Beth would know what Jim had up his sleeve


    29. Max pulled down his sleeve to cover the picture on his arm


    30. on her mother’s sleeve

    31. had finished, wiping his mouth with the back of his sleeve


    32. Beth had done a good job of teaching her how to wrap her sleeve inside her blouses, but she still had no chest


    33. ’ She started picking at the sleeve


    34. Or, we can focus our resources on the problem at hand, which, the Order believes, is the presence of the undeath in our world at this very moment," Nicola said, wiping her eye with the sleeve of her white robe


    35. A stump of a hand stuck out from her white sleeve and rested on the table


    36. cheeks on the sleeve of his tunic


    37. A sleeve of gold motioned toward Emily


    38. A golden sleeve was extended to the elf


    39. Squinting in pain, Brice raised a gold sleeve to his head


    40. Brice wiped his nose, raising a sleeve of blood stained lace up to his eyes saying, "Someone approaches

    41. It took a swipe at the Breton, knocking her halfway to the ground and cutting right through the thin leather armor on her sleeve


    42. What does he have up his sleeve?


    43. He greeted her with an exaggerated flourish of his colorful sleeve


    44. It was a thin sleeve of parchment, wrapped with wax paper and the outside covered in illegible scribbles and half-formed words


    45. He carefully opened the wax paper sleeve and retrieved the piece of parchment it contained, all of it crinkling loudly in his hands


    46. sleeve; with the speech of a king giving


    47. Looking much more relaxed, Melissa rolled her HEPO sleeve back down


    48. “All we have is our ID from school?” said Isabelle, as she pulled out a card from a small, black case that was in a sleeve pocket


    49. Melissa reluctantly loosened the cuff on the HEPO and rolled up the sleeve


    50. Melissa rolled up her sleeve and inspected the wound on her arm














































    1. I could wear that little black skirt with a casual top, I’ve got a nice long sleeved one which isn’t too dressy


    2. They built into the midships sole a sleeved, retractable keel which when deployed extended to a depth of more than three feet, and from leading edge to following was also about three feet


    3. wearing blaze-orange long sleeved shirts that have “DONATION GUY” embroidered on their fronts


    4. Dressed in long trousers and long sleeved shirt


    5. Brandon was in a black long sleeved sweater and grey slacks, he complimented his look with a grey hat, pulled low over his gorgeous eyes


    6. I dawned my white long sleeved herve leger dress; it was above knee length


    7. Covering her mouth with her sleeved arm, Amori looked around, squinting so that she could see well


    8. Even the air�line crew wore their uniforms, the men in short sleeved white shirts with epaulets and tie, the girls in the uniform variation that permitted slacks in the tropics


    9. He wore tan slacks and a short sleeved white shirt open at the throat


    10. Steng walks into Denson's office at noon, a cigarette butt stuffed into his white, short sleeved shirt pocket, "She dead

    11. James was standing near the dining room table wearing A black long sleeved shirt and blue jeans


    12. He caught the soggy wet camera and wiped it with his long sleeved


    13. dressed similarly to me in a long sleeved tee-shirt and Bermuda shorts instead of


    14. She had shed her long sleeved tee-shirt and Bermuda shorts and stood before me


    15. She had chosen a long sleeved blouse, waistcoat, hot pants and mid thigh boots


    16. I sniffled, wiped my eyes on the long sleeved FBI shirt and stood up


    17. It was good that she had on pants and a long sleeved turtleneck under her sweater


    18. His shaven head, intense bloodshot eyes and thick solid neck loomed ominously out of his short sleeved uniformed shirt


    19. She found a navy blue net sari, with a plain short sleeved, low cut blouse


    20. spurs, a web belt, a loose short sleeved bloused top with an open collar that showed ample cleavage, a bush hat and a monocle

    21. The only thing formal in military terms he wore was just his pink cape, but beyond that he wore a glamorous, long sleeved belly shirt that exposed his well-toned abdomen


    22. The geckoid was dressed in a light brown coat beneath his white, long sleeved sweater, and wore dark brown trousers and simple leather shoes


    23. " Steven soaked up the remaining tears with his long sleeved, flannel shirt


    24. sleeved shirt and a very thin pink mini-skirt that seemed more like


    25. He was dressed in a long sleeved


    26. 00am, wearing dark green trousers and long sleeved shirt, light weight, for the climate and to blend with jungle foliage


    27. He removed a picture that had been folded in half and sleeved in a conspicuous side pocket


    28. He wore a long sleeved, baggy hemp shirt with its


    29. Blamey, a short but stocky, solidly-built man with a thick moustache, wore the typical Australian tropical dress of short pants, short sleeved tan shirt and wide-brimmed felt hat


    30. Tony, Gracy, Grandpa Mike, David, Christine, Christine's parents Winston and Marie, Marie's sister Merlene and around nine or more of Christine's other family and relatives surround Dana's hospital bed near her head talking, smiling and admiring Dana as Dana lays face up in the bed sound asleep with a blanket up to her hips, dressed in a shiny long sleeved dark red rose print blouse with the shiny bright red rose print corset underneath and shiny dark red leggings with her hair back in one long thick braid with a shiny dark red bow near the bottom of her long thick braid as her long thick braid rests on top of the side of her chest

    31. The hospital room is crowded with Dana‘s family and relatives again as they surround her hospital bed near her head talking, smiling and admiring her again as she lays sideways in the bed sound asleep with one hand beneath her head, the other hand resting against her side with the blanket up to her hips, dressed in the bright white tank shirt with the dark brown collar with dark brown paisley print on it, the white short sleeved blouse over it bearing her muscular arms and dark brown leggings with her hair back in one long thick braid again with a bright white bow near the bottom of her long thick braid as her long thick braid rests on the side of her


    32. Dana comes out of the back seat and steps out the car dressed in dark green pants, an opened short sleeved white buttoned shirt and a mint green corset underneath


    33. She is dressed in a black long sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled to her elbows and black pants


    34. ” In the photograph is an old picture of Diane D at the age of around 9 wearing dark blue pants, a dark blue long sleeved shirt with her hair in two long thick ponytails one ponytail hanging on each side of her head and chest, smiling and posing in the picture with 3 Asian men who are wearing martial arts suits as she stands on a stool between two of them, with one are around each of them and the third Asian man on his knees in front of Diane D with his arms folded as they all smile towards the camera


    35. He found his jeans and shoes but his tee shirt had been replaced with a long sleeved shirt and a brown vest


    36. of sandals, shorts and a flowered short sleeved shirt were the tools of the trade


    37. long sleeved black top and putting that on


    38. I pulled out a long sleeved top and looked at my grandpa with a


    39. Then, in actions as quick as the actress’, he pulled up his trousers and grabbed his long sleeved T-shirt from the sofa it had been flung to: Dressing quicker than he had done in his life


    40. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a smart black short sleeved shirt that showed off his strong, muscled forearms

    41. Suddenly, a crucifix appeared in the doorway, held by an extended, sleeved arm of the female


    42. over short sleeved shirt with black neatly pressed pants


    43. I grabbed some warmer clothes out of my bag and quickly changed, exchanging my tee-shirt for a longer sleeved blouse and jacket


    44. ” He heard cups and saucers clatter in the kitchenette as he undressed and put on a pair of baggy white boating trousers and a short sleeved T shirt


    45. Standing just near the corner of the building was a man dressed in slacks, long sleeved shirt rolled up to his elbows and carrying a sports bag


    46. A picture of boys with dark hair, unshaved, short sleeved shirts, canvas pants, one with a knife in his hand


    47. He was dressed in only a long sleeved t-shirt and tattered jeans and could feel his teeth chattering as he hurried towards the house


    48. He wore a slashed sleeved jerkin with a


    49. over garment, open at the neck and short sleeved, exposing his


    50. She was staring in the mirror at the white, long sleeved, long skirted dress she wore





    1. Angie chattered inconsequentially as she assisted the older woman to undress, laying aside each garment as it came off and producing a long, soft nightgown from somewhere, casting it over Kara’s head and helping her find the sleeves


    2. colours flying in hearts and on sleeves,


    3. Early migrants to America and Australia were often photographed at weddings and in bars, raising a loving glass to the old country, showing great bravado, cigarettes drooping from their lips; young men sipping whisky in shirt sleeves and armbands, unbuttoned waistcoats and slackened ties, slicked back hair


    4. The coat was complete with gold buttons, gold braid on the sleeves and of course gold epaulets at the shoulder


    5. You brother Ike died in a bar fight with a biker, his sleeves were wired


    6. In fact she rolled up the sleeves to her shoulders


    7. She wore a green silk blouse with ruffled lace sleeves and waist and gold buttons


    8. Most who came up here wore robes, he came as close as he could in wide white bells and sleeves with mendelbrots in the black and orange of Internal Investigation trimming the openings


    9. hmm, here are a selection of fabrics for your shirt sleeves


    10. She wasn’t dressed as revealingly as Huneen, but in a one-piece knitted sheath that covered her whole body to the middle of her thighs with elbow-length sleeves, much like a duty-suit

    11. The young man rolled down the sleeves of his tunic and


    12. The sleeves on the red and blue checked western shirt he wore, were rolled up to his elbows and his jeans, were covered in mud and blood


    13. In the dark they added flowing robes or jackets with dangly sleeves or tails


    14. She tore one of my sleeves off, wadded it into a ball, and


    15. Children are present," Brice could no longer contain his anger, threads of blue light spilled from his golden sleeves


    16. One of his golden sleeves was soaked from dunking Alec's head while the rest of his robe was splattered with stains of puke


    17. "Absolute nonsense" said Betty brushing her sleeves down and buttoning her cuffs, "But full marks for a very pretty tale, and thank for having us all the same, it was decent of you to rescue us


    18. On their right sleeves a small rectangular flash of white with the words, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”


    19. She was wearing a very conservative Hebrew garment that covered her body from neck to ankles, with sleeves to her wrists


    20. The Elf rolled up her sleeves and pitched in with Pim and Song to refit the Lorien

    21. We didn't have that trick up our sleeves then


    22. ” She pushed up her sleeves and gasped


    23. Sebastian watched as her arms slid into her sleeves, tucking her Lead Arrow mark on her left shoulder into its soft, white folds


    24. wearily as the cultist, hands inside his sleeves, politely took a seat across from him, on the other side


    25. He wore a black coat, trousers, and boots in imitation of the Alit’aren – golden dragons embroidered on the sleeves


    26. She wore a pale blue dress with white embroidery on the sleeves and across the breast, the Blue Water Dragon pin holding the neck of her dark blue woollen cloak


    27. Turning her back to Logan she put her arms through the short cap sleeves of the wrap wincing slightly as it brushed her sensitive nipples


    28. " Goldwater told us that it was either Santa Clause dreams or rolled-up sleeves


    29. Whatever happened to Barry Goldwater, with his prescriptions of Santa Claus dreams or rolled-up sleeves?


    30. And as for the fish ‘n’ chips, you have haddock crumbs all over your sleeves, and the aroma of the Sea Dog’s house specialty is unmistakable

    31. ” She grabbed both of their sleeves and pulled them into the cabin, quietly closing the door


    32. getting the snow up her sleeves, Patty got on to the coping of the


    33. sleeves went down my neck


    34. Amaranthe peered over the edge at the second man, who clung to the ladder, using his sleeves as protection from the hot metal rungs


    35. the South African Communist Party is ridiculously small and hanging on the shirt sleeves of the ruling party for jobs and income


    36. I remember having a few words with a young instructor once when he saw my shirt sleeves were cut off and wanted to make it an issue


    37. I straightened the A-lined skirt of my white chiffon dress with its V-neck lace bodice and checked that the long, wide laced elvish styled sleeves had not caught onto anything and left loose threads


    38. The rest was up to the individual and most wore shorts and short sleeves with vellies which is a type of shoe made of leather and no socks


    39. Thomas had entered the dining room; his hands were busy buttoning the remainder of his many buttons on the front and sleeves of his shirt


    40. William quickly created a makeshift bandage by tearing strips of cloth from one of the sleeves of his borrowed white shirt

    41. She wore black leather riding pants with knee-high boots, a close-fitting white blouse with pleated front, tiny collar and long sleeves


    42. His dad, with his steel-toed, ankle-length, zip-sided shoes, his blue polyester work pants, the shirt that he was so proud of, where he cut the sleeves off and re-seamed them by hand, the one with paint spots all over it


    43. The white blouse had full, loose sleeves, and wide bands at the wrist


    44. "Thank you! Thank you so much!" she said, using her sleeves to wipe the blood from her face


    45. First the shirt, a soft, cottony-white colour, big and streaming out in the tails, with huge floppy sleeves, and big cuffs with no buttons


    46. Tight sleeves came halfway down his forearms then just kind of stopped in a cone-shaped pansy-like floppy ring


    47. Sim pulled out something else, and this one had no sleeves at all


    48. He stood in a bowed position with hands knitted together, hidden inside the sleeves of his surplice


    49. Colling let out a small sigh of relief when he heard the fluent use of the language and saw the two gold stripes on the sleeves of the man’s coat


    50. Fred rolled up his sleeves, as the day was quickly warming up











































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    Synonyms for "sleeve"

    arm sleeve

    "sleeve" definitions

    the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm


    small case into which an object fits