SHIRT in a Sentence

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For SHIRT, below is one of 215 sentences:
Pork brought forth his favorite ruffled shirt, so inexpertly mended by the chambermaid as to be unwearable by anyone except his valet.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIRT
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shirt
 n.  a piece of clothing worn on the upper part of the body, often having a collar and buttons at the front
Classic Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1  Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Pork brought forth his favorite ruffled shirt, so inexpertly mended by the chambermaid as to be unwearable by anyone except his valet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  He was well turned out in mustard-colored trousers and black coat and his pleated shirt was topped by the widest and most fashionable of black cravats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  But she wanted to give him something more personal, something a wife could give a husband, a shirt, a pair of gauntlets, a hat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Don't forget to put a newspaper across your chest under your shirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  His shirt and trousers were as red as a butcher's and even the end of his iron-gray beard was matted with blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  His dress was as debonaire as if he were going to a ball, well-tailored white linen coat and trousers, embroidered gray watered-silk waistcoat and a hint of ruffle on his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Suddenly she was in his arms, her wet cheek against the starched ruffle of his shirt, her beating hands stilled against him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  He stopped and smiled faintly, shivering a little as the cold wind went through his thin shirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  His tall hat was off in a deep bow when her eyes met his and his hand went to the bosom of a spotless pleated shirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Melanie, strangely quick for one so recently in a faint, was rapidly cutting off his blood-soaked shirt with embroidery scissors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  His shirt, opened to the waist, showed a brown chest covered with thick black hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Guy ironed his shirt and shined his shoes for the interview.
17  Tuck your shirt into your trousers.
18  The shirt's cuffs won't sag and lose their shape after washing.
19  She grasped at his shirt as he ran past.
20  Please wring all the water from the soaking-wet shirt.
21  He took off his shirt to reveal his tanned torso.
22  They laid him on the floor and put one large Bible under his head, and opened another one and spread it on his breast; but they tore open his shirt first, and I seen where one of the bullets went in.
23  The indelible ink left a permanent mark on my shirt.
24  When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and pants of his, and I put them on.
25  He tried to tuck his shirt into his trousers.
26  He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses -- no, he only had one.
27  Refusing Dave's offer to lend him a shirt, Phil replied, "No, thanks, I've got scads of clothes.".
28  Workers weave silk thread into beautiful shirts.
29  It's traditional for the two teams to exchange shirts after the game.
30  The team is sponsored by JVC, so the players wear the letters JVC on their shirts.