shirtsleeves
IPA: ʃˈɝtsɫivz
noun
- Alternative form of shirt sleeves
- Street clothes, without a jacket or special protection.
- Non-professional status
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Examples of "shirtsleeves" in Sentences
- Both were in shirtsleeves and wearing broad grins.
- Ben is in shirtsleeves, Tiffany's in a checked skirt.
- He had the image of an emotional, shirtsleeves populist.
- Taking the stage before 25,000 Iowans, Obama, grinning in shirtsleeves, yelled: “It's good to back in Iowa!”
- The man had a fraternal look on his face; he looked like a kindly neighbor in shirtsleeves on a Sunday afternoon.
- I thought the Right was all about protocol, seeing as how upset many of them were that OUR President was in shirtsleeves in the Oval Office.
- There'd be some carefully staged photo op of him in shirtsleeves talking at a group of carefully selected, neatly washed and ironed squaddies.
- Someone had the sense to call the co-pilot and Ben, still in shirtsleeves and blinking the sleep from his eyes, pushed his way through the crowd.
- But from Albuquerque to Richmond, Virginia, the overall scene is similar: President Obama, standing in shirtsleeves with a cordless microphone, talking to a small crowd of people.
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