Example sentences for: sleeve

How can you use “sleeve” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Who can say what the federal government had up its sleeve when it softened the term narcotics and began calling heroin and cocaine controlled substances .

  • But the fabric has severe weaknesses, as I found out from testing a Wickers brand long sleeve T-shirt made of pure polypropylene ($17.

  • In fact, we shudder to think of all that our young Slovakian friends might have missed without the Enquirer this month, from the detailed story of the wedding of a woman missing the entire lower half of her body (she walked up the aisle on her hands, with the garter concealed under her sleeve) to the assertion that Al Gore may be more electable than George W. Bush because of his strong jaw and cheekbones.

  • Apparel producers providing garments with multiple dimensions—for example, men’s shirts that are sized according to collar, sleeve length, and often torso length—require much more consistent cutting than suppliers whose apparel is sold only in small, medium, and large sizes.

  • Trent Lott, the Senate Majority Leader, is not the kind of fellow who wears his heart on his sleeve, so it came as something of a shock when, several weeks ago, he revealed his own wretched childhood to a reporter for the New York Times Magazine . Lott's father, a shipyard worker in Pascagoula, Miss.


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