What is "shirtsleeves"

Usage examples of "shirtsleeves".

Cris Bellhanger, in his shirtsleeves and braces, banged his tray down beside mine in the canteen.

Despite the shirtsleeves and rumpled hair, Ish looked capable of playing pool for the rest of the night.

Buck Mulligan stood on a stone, in shirtsleeves, his unclipped tie rippling over his shoulder.

There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket.

Byrne came forward from the hindbar in tuckstitched shirtsleeves, cleaning his lips with two wipes of his napkin.

And there sits uncle Chubb or Tomkin, as the case might be, the publican of the Crown and Anchor, in shirtsleeves, eating rumpsteak and onions.

She smiled, and gave some message to an elderly man in white shirtsleeves, who had followed her to the door.

Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a saucer.

His shirtsleeves were rolled to the elbow and his arms were folded nimbly across his chest.

He tugged the cuffs of his shirtsleeves, composed himself, all business.

When the arrangements had been made, when we had parted and I was living alone in the house, and I had spent the weekend at the Zoo and the Natural History Museum and the cinema and the Hard Rock Cafe with Tash, overfeeding and over-entertaining her but not knowing what else to do, I was sitting alone in the canteen at Megapolis when the chairman in shirtsleeves once again put his lunch down beside mine.

Cris was with her working, as always, in his snow-white shirtsleeves and blue braces, and he was still smiling when I told him we had to have a serious discussion on the subject of war crimes.

He looked handsome and virile, with his shirtsleeves shoved up, exposing strong forearms.