Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
sleeves
IPA transcription: [sl'ivz]
Usage examples
The doctor rolled up his shirt sleeves and stooped down.
He turned back his shirt at the neck and rolled up his sleeves."
Now let us roll up our sleeves again and hurry on with the dado.'
He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves.
I suppose they laugh in their sleeves at their master's being such a queer fish?"
"Where's Lark Spivey's bullet?" called out Billy to the judges, as he finished rolling up his sleeves.
Florence quietly laid down her riding whip and tucked up her sleeves. "What shall I do first?" she said.
It was made of a flowered silk, trimmed with lace, and the sleeves short enough to sit very well on her now.
The sleeves, small at the wrist, were trimmed with folds of the material and a quilling of white lace at the hand.
Midway of the sleeves were fine, individual wrinkles made by the movements of her arms in working for his comfort and pleasure.