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Example sentences for "shirt"

Lexicographically close words:
shirkers; shirking; shirks; shirra; shirred; shirted; shirting; shirts; shirtsleeves; shirtwaist
  1. Some wore only a shirt as a covering for their body.

  2. In summer the slaves went without shoes and wore three-quarter checkered baggy pants, some wearing only a long shirt to cover their body.

  3. The great man had forgotten the engagement, and was "buffeting his books" in a dirty shirt and amidst clouds of dust.

  4. On clean shirt day you might go abroad and pay visits.

  5. With rude bandages made by tearing his shirt into strips Patches checked the flow of blood, and bound up the wound as best he could.

  6. I'll loan you a clean shirt for supper; that is, if mother lets you eat at the same table with him.

  7. It was manned by five islanders, dressed in shirt tunics of calico.

  8. His dinner jacket seemed rather loose, and his starched shirt was decidedly crumpled.

  9. Barjona, with a starched shirt and a satin tie, vividly blue!

  10. Farmer Goodenough stood to carve, and after a while took off his coat, apparently in order that he might be able to mop his face with his shirt sleeves and so not seriously interrupt his operations.

  11. I must have looked rather startling--pale and blood-stained, and the shirt half-torn off me.

  12. The first trunk missed, but tore the shirt off my arm as it swept to earth, throwing me off my balance; then a whirling stick split my head open, sent me down on my face, and next second I was buried in falling limbs.

  13. Big as he was the suit he had on that day was too large, and hung on him like a purser's shirt on a handspike.

  14. He jumped up and pursued the intruder, but did not succeed in catching him until he had reached the passage, when he seized him by the shirt and braces.

  15. I turned up my coat and shirt sleeve of my right hand when I committed the murder.

  16. They found him in bed; but, on their calling him up, they perceived that he still had his trousers on, and his braces and shirt were torn.

  17. His body was laid out in a back room with the shirt on, and the comforter round his head, until a coroner's jury could sit on him.

  18. Her husband was awoke instantly by her cries, and he had just time to leap from his bed and proceed in his shirt to the mantelpiece, on which he constantly kept a loaded pistol, before the four villains entered the chamber.

  19. The prisoner had nothing on but his shirt at the time of the attack].

  20. In a trice he had changed his thick flannel shirt for linen of the finest quality, his mountain knickerbockers for a suit of serpent-green that turned the heads of all the women in Tarascon at the Sunday concerts.

  21. True it was that the apothecary suffered a thousand deaths from this hair-shirt of a secret, which cut him, skinned him, turned him pale and red in the same minute and caused him to squint continually.

  22. Next morning my friend the chief got up, and shook himself into shape, and begged a shirt and a pound of tobacco, neither of which I dare refuse him, and he then took himself off quietly.

  23. The old man-of-war's man had placed his back exactly opposite to that part of the said fence where hung a certain striped cotton shirt and well scrubbed canvas trowsers, which could belong to no one but himself.

  24. And that captain with the shirt Harriet made----" he paused abruptly and clenched his hands involuntarily.

  25. Drayton folded up the shirt with a decided gesture.

  26. To make a shirt for a rebel were infamy enough, but to embroider your name across its shoulders that all might see that Harriet Owen, a loyal subject of the king, was so employed surpasses belief.

  27. And when I had said this I went to my saddle-bags which had been placed in a corner of the room, and drew forth the shirt that you had given me.

  28. Why, some of our poor fellows haven't even a shirt to their backs.

  29. And if it had not been for your insisting upon it that shirt would never have been made," went on Harriet in an aggrieved tone.

  30. Harriet Owen, daughter of William Owen, a colonel of the Welsh Fusileers, and a most loyal subject of His Majesty, making a shirt for one of the rebels.

  31. I have held resentment against that--captain ever since last February, when he flouted me with that shirt of my sister's making.

  32. Because," said she speaking deliberately, "if you will accept it, I should like to give you the shirt that I made.

  33. Tis athwart the shoulders," said Harriet, handing the shirt to Peggy, a little sparkle coming into her eyes.

  34. I doubt not that every soldier of the rebel army hath either a shirt of your making, or a pair of socks of your knitting.

  35. Did thee finish the shirt mother gave thee to make?

  36. At one of the taverns where we stopped on the way down here, a captain, a whipper-snapper Yankee, flaunted a shirt in my face made by my sister.

  37. No Yankee shall wear a shirt of my sister's making.

  38. There was a quick report, and a bullet tore through a loose fold of his shirt sleeve.

  39. Reaching into his shirt he withdrew a half-dollar suspended from his neck by a greasy thong of rawhide.

  40. Very gently he laid the girl on the grass, loosened her shirt at the throat, and removed her wet boots.

  41. Alice thrust the flowers into the bosom of her soft shirt and regarded the man coldly: "If all of you brave gun-fighters are afraid to go in there and get him, I'll go.

  42. Fumbling in his shirt pocket, he drew out the note Purdy had written and signed with the Texan's name.

  43. Stooping over the injured man she twisted her fingers into the collar of his shirt and succeeded in raising his face clear of the water.

  44. She turned indifferently at a sound from the direction of the barn, and hurriedly thrust the paper into the bosom of her grey flannel shirt as McWhorter appeared around the corner of the haystack.

  45. During the period of the empire a second garment, the tunica interior, corresponding to the shirt of modern times, was worn under the tunic.

  46. He took off his own coat in the street and put it on the poor man, and then went home in his shirt sleeves.

  47. The little man in the red shirt shouted back, "Yes!

  48. When the men on the steamer heard that this little man in the red shirt was Doctor Kane himself, they sent up cheer after cheer.

  49. He had his coat taken--ay, and his shirt too," returned the ostler.

  50. In a sort of frenzy she kissed him, then kissed the shirt and the bullets, and went out of the room, leaving her brother sitting on his chair, as if he had been turned to stone.

  51. He came forward with a light, swaying step, dressed only in shirt and trousers.

  52. Only his festive white shirt had become spotted with red from the spilled wine.

  53. She had seized him by the bosom of his shirt and shouted into his face, "When is he coming?

  54. The stuff was rough and homely, but the coarse shirt that showed at the neck and wrists was of a glistening white, that looked so strangely clean in the dirty blacksmith shop, that its color seemed, as it were, to stab through the darkness.

  55. His well worn trousers were turned up above his ankles, and his shirt sleeves were rolled up nearly to his elbows.

  56. Under the blue shirt collar he had again his red tie, so people might see at once what he stood for.

  57. So Spiele had to fetch a pair of old trousers and a coat and working-shirt of "the long one," which she did with ever-laughing eyes.

  58. He had no time to see what it was; for some one seized him by the clothes over his chest and lifted him, heavy as he was, high in the air and shook him, so that his shirt and waistcoat and coat tore.

  59. And look, here were the moist, dark-red spots in the sunlit dust of the road, and the ruby red on his Sunday shirt flamed even more intensely.

  60. Say," asked Heller, "do you take your shirt off at night or keep it on?

  61. So Heller took his shirt off too, and lay down in the creaking bed.

  62. He fumbled in his homespun shirt a minute and then produced a tiny carved figure of green jade.

  63. The figure's hands were cut and bleeding and it wore, tied about its head, a strip of calico torn from its shirt which lay open, exposing a chest as black as its face.

  64. He wore an old skin shirt and a pair of towlinen pants, which flapped about his bare brown ankles.

  65. The third man was shorter and broader, and wore a newer hunting shirt than his fellows and a broad belt of wool and leather.

  66. There was more naked skin than shirt about you Dan'l.

  67. He stripped off his coat, which was dampish, and revealed a dirty shirt and the dilapidated tops of his small clothes.

  68. Hungry, tired, and depressed, with my head engaged inside a white shirt irritatingly stuck together by too much starch, I desired him peevishly to "heave round with that breakfast.

  69. I dragged the shirt violently over my head and emerged staring.

  70. I found him at the house, stepped into the bakehouse, and addressed myself to a man in shirt sleeves who was putting bread into the oven; it was Reboul himself!

  71. While she herself looked trim, and finished in white silk shirt and russet-red suit, her toilet bearing no sign of indifference or of haste.

  72. Even through the thickness of cloth jacket and silk shirt she was aware of their lifelessness and chill.

  73. With a cocked eye and a jaunty movement of the head Mr. Titherage shot out his right shirt cuff, and pointed a stout forefinger at certain hieroglyphics inscribed on its glossy surface.

  74. This style of washing may be avoided to some extent by particular direction, but the gloss or glazing which the American laundries put upon shirt fronts seems to be unknown on the continent.

  75. He shivered slightly, and drew his ragged canvas shirt closer about his bare chest and neck.

  76. The old man at the bow wore no clothing save a ragged canvas shirt and a pair of wide, ill-made trunks.

  77. So this fellow in the crimson shirt turned out to be the forester, the woman's husband.

  78. I go gaily and boldly into the church, feeling that I am a communicant, that I have a splendid and expensive shirt on, made out of a silk dress left by my grandmother.

  79. From spieling the stock markets a feller could lose his shirt yet.

  80. I bet yer he would a whole lot sooner take off his coat and shirt and spiel a little auction pinocle mit Sol Klinger and Leon Sammet and all them fellers as be giving dinners already in a tuxedo suit to Sam Feder.

  81. The shirt he wore was thick, coarse, and collarless; the trousers resembled the stained overalls of a plumber.

  82. The negro was humming a tune; his torn shirt was falling from a bare, black shoulder.

  83. He felt the warmth of her pulsing fingers through the thin sleeve of his shirt as she turned him toward her.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.