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Example sentences for: sleeves

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

While Gore rolled around in the muck, Bradley did no more than take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves.
In America, he assured me, I would hear “English with its sleeves rolled-up.”
The first shows late 16 th century fashion looking ridiculous only on the aging queen herself, as if no other woman at the time ever wore a rigid farthingale and stuffed sleeves, a tightly frizzed wig and a bushel of pearls, or painted her face with white paste.
Perhaps it will not be too long before the man from Sears, and every proud American, will be able to welcome the foreigner to a land where people are not afraid to roll up their sleeves.
One imagines that discriminating people in the 16 th century mourned the death of high fashion in much the same way, when slashed sleeves, grotesquely imitating the rags of mercenary soldiers, came into style.