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How to use shirt-sleeve in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shirt-sleeve? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Still, it was not shirt-sleeve weather, and Rose was a little surprised himself.
Last year, the abnormal felt like a surprise — shirt-sleeve days in New Year's week.
Neither Pletcher nor Velazquez was enjoying the sunny day with a shirt-sleeve breeze and 74-degree weather.
By contrast, American homes burn an average of 13,400 kilowatt-hours annually in order to maintain a shirt-sleeve environment year round.
Last year's shirt-sleeve winter greatly reduced heating demand.
The unexpected cold has shattered, at least temporarily, the rhythms and routines of sunbathing tourists and shirt-sleeve retirees in southern Florida.
Examples from Classical Literature
The wind dragged a shirt-sleeve from the 'popple' or pebble which held it down.
I perceived some spots of blood on his shirt-sleeve, and pointed them out to him.
But he had no pencil, or he could have written it on his shirt-sleeve.
He rolled up his shirt-sleeve and compared the white underside if the arm with his face.
How did you get all that earth on your clothes and tear your shirt-sleeve?
It was a new experience to turn the handle of the duplicator, and, in shirt-sleeve garb, to clip up the pages.
So I must elbow in myself, and see what my shirt-sleeve diplomacy can do.
As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve.
The youngest of the children is holding him by the shirt-sleeve.
Leigh nodded, as he drew his shirt-sleeve down over his bandages.
George has been so excited that he finds it necessary to wipe his forehead on his shirt-sleeve.
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