noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clean shirt/sheet/towel etc
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Where are all my clean socks?
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
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Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
a football shirt
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They were all wearing England football shirts.
a jacket/trouser/shirt etc pocket
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She slipped the map into her jacket pocket.
a shirt/skirt/coat etc button
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Is this your coat button?
dress shirt
hair shirt
Hawaiian shirt
lost...shirts (= lost a lot of money )
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A lot of people lost their shirts on Ferraris in the eighties.
polo shirt
shirt tail
sport shirt
sports shirt
stuffed shirt
tee shirt
undo your jacket/shirt/bra etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Black over-tunics, with a fine white stripe, and black shirt with wide white ties.
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He wore a loincloth and a black shirt .
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Some piano music tinkles gently in the background, a black Armani shirt clings softly to his chest.
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He wore a black pullover shirt , short-sleeve, and a pair of dark chinos.
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The girl and the young man in the black shirt watched them.
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He wore a black cotton shirt , tan shorts, and no shoes.
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The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
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He wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt , fatigue pants, combat boots.
blue
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Whenever Chelsea's defence did look about to be breached, an eager blue shirt would arrive.
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The development team, recognizable by their custom-made royal-\#blue bowling shirts , were accorded celebrity status.
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They were prepared to ferry the ball from blue shirt to blue shirt and in the process frustrate Nottingham Forest.
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A short-sleeved blue Arrow shirt strained to contain a chest as vast as the Sahara.
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He was wearing khakis, a blue polo shirt and sneakers.
clean
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I wear a tang of aftershave and a clean shirt .
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When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt .
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He wore his best suit, a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close.
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They washed at a pump behind the church, and each child was dressed in a clean shirt .
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He goes into the bedroom and puts on a clean white shirt and a suit.
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The parquet was shined, the table-cloths starched and the waiters had clean shirts .
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Fresh hose a clean shirt , a cup of claret, a meat pie and a manchet loaf!
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He got out of bed and put his clothes on, the same clothes but a clean shirt .
green
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A green shirt beer-bulged over a low-slung belt.
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Kaczynski wore khaki pants and a long-sleeved green shirt during his appearance.
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He was wearing a brown jacket, green shirt and blue jeans.
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He wore a pale green business shirt , and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.
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She wore an emerald green silk shirt , a very short black leather skirt and black tights.
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I had a pair of tan cotton pants and a green checkered shirt .
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The quarterback wears a green plaid shirt that flaps in the late-afternoon wind.
hawaiian
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They perm their hair, dress in Hawaiian shirts and drive huge Mercedes cars through narrow streets.
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Friar Laurence sports a fullback tattoo and Hawaiian shirt beneath his priestly robes.
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A busload of tourists came in behind us, maybe twenty Hawaiians in Hawaiian shirts , with cameras and funny hats.
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Looking up, Converse saw a street photographer in a Hawaiian shirt advancing toward his bench.
pink
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Dann opened the door himself, looking warm and sticky in a pink short-sleeved shirt and bright green slacks.
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His pink shirt clinging to the curve of his belly.
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Thomas pink shirt , as before.
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Like the way he was dressed now, the corduroy suit pants and pink sport shirt and scuffed-up black shoes.
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Rahmi walked by at exactly ten-thirty, wearing a pink Lacoste shirt and immaculately pressed tan trousers, looking edgy.
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Jeremy Yes, the gentleman in the pink shirt .
plaid
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Lyle, wearing a plaid shirt , stared gape-mouthed at Conn.
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Lamar Alexander has plaid shirts and youth.
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As usual, Marty is wearing a plaid shirt , suspenders and Harley-Davidson cap.
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Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt .
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He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
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Many of the men wore plaid shirts and jeans or unironed pants, donning ties only when they had their pictures taken.
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I fished a wool plaid shirt from my canvas bag and he put it on.
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What about pale-faced geeks in plaid shirts ?
red
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Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
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On the other seats were more meu wearing red shirts: they were crammed ill, five to a seat.
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Or complain because some one's red shirt has run?
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I saw men in red shirts throwing punches at an old man.
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He caught sight of a dark-haired boy in a bright red shirt and green shorts coming out of the shop.
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Peasants with pitchforks? Red flannel shirts ?
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One of his hands, meanwhile, was exploring her back, inside her red shirt .
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Westerveld was submerged under a mountain of red shirts , Birmingham's valiant O'Connor and Jon McCarthy were left sobbing.
striped
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The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio.
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One was wearing a beige T shirt , one a white T shirt and another a striped white shirt.
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He was photographed by Man Ray in a sharp, dark suit with a striped shirt and white collar.
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Helen explained about the house. Striped shirt nodded.
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He clashed striped shirts , check jackets and spotted ties.
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He was six feet two, and wore dark blue trousers with a blue and white striped shirt .
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Him: suit jacket, £680; striped shirt , £190.
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He was elderly, bald, very thin, wearing a striped shirt of the kind that have detachable collars.
white
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He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie.
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He wore a navy-blue suit, white shirt and black tie.
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My mum came in at about 07.15, holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed.
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The players wore short-sleeve white shirts , long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
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He had bought a new white shirt and was wearing a regimental tie which had cost him tuppence in a jumble sale.
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She wore red pants and a white shirt .
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Then Jack Scamp appeared from inside the Mimosa, nattily dressed in white shirt , dark tie and dark blazer.
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Hank would arrive each morning, dressed in his neat three-piece suit, white shirt , and solid-color tie.
yellow
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He's young, this one, no more than twenty, and he wears street clothes, a yellow nylon shirt .
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When I visit Weiser he is wearing a loud yellow shirt flanked by red suspenders.
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The boy is wearing the yellow check lumberjack shirt Sam bought him.
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He was in white ducks, brown and white wing tips, and a yellow silk sport shirt .
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Rory walked towards her, dressed in jeans and sneakers, a soft yellow shirt .
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The sun has half risen in that time and it lights up the fabric of the yellow shirt like stained glass.
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He wore cream linen trousers and a pale yellow shirt that was definitely not off the peg.
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He always wore a tie, but his ties never seemed to reach more than half way down his yellow shirts .
■ NOUN
collar
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As he opened the front door to his rooms, his shirt collar was slightly damp.
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The water had worked its way down inside his shirt collar .
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Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
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I would sweat so hard that my shirt collar turned white from the salt leached out from my body.
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Though it was a warm day, he was wearing his old faded high-necked sweater with a frayed shirt collar showing.
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His jacket size varies between 62 and 64, with a 22-inch shirt collar .
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I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs.
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She takes my arm, grabs me by the shirt collar , pulls me close, pulls me into her life.
cotton
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt , silk tie and tweed jacket.
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He wore a black cotton shirt , tan shorts, and no shoes.
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She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
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Palm trees sway on the backs of countless cotton shirts .
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There are several cotton shirts on the market which are practical yet stylish enough to wear in the city.
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At the front, inside the thick cotton shirt , was the flat protuberance of the packet.
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But there are no chinos, cotton shirts or Shetland sweaters here.
dress
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Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt .
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He wears a suit and a dress shirt without a tie, along with a straw hat that is out of style.
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For one thing, I forgot to turn off the iron and nearly burnt the Professor's dress shirt I was ironing.
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He wore a short-sleeved dress shirt with the collar open and his necktie at half-mast.
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He threw my dress shirt over it so all was pale blue.
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Every day Mones came to class in a short-sleeved dress shirt and shiny black tie-up shoes.
flannel
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He bought the kid a bigger check flannel shirt this time.
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As she was talking a man in olive-drab slacks and an open-necked flannel shirt joined her.
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He was dressed in a flannel shirt that was covered in sawdust.
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The man in the flannel shirt heads toward the door but is stopped as two young women enter.
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Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt .
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He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
hair
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Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt , or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge.
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Under any circumstance, an official retraction is a terrible hair shirt .
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So, after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days, the City would have sold sterling anyway.
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They go around wearing their pensions like hair shirts .
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If Cleo represented a hair shirt , he would wear it, and withstand the chafing.
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From her childhood she sacrificed and mortified herself and wore a hair shirt .
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And his hair shirt of guilt brought its perverse comfort again.
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Among penances approved by the Church were wearing a hair shirt which was prickly and uncomfortable, walking barefoot, and fasting.
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New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket .
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He now took a pair of sunglasses from his shirt pocket and pointed them at me.
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His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
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He took a plain card and a pen from his shirt pocket .
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He pulled the crumpled bills from his shirt pocket and dropped them on the desk.
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There was a live round of its ammunition in his shirt pocket .
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He dresses conservatively-black shoes and all-the only hint at aristocracy being a tiny monogram on the shirt pocket .
polo
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Wearing her navy shorts and a jade-green polo shirt , she felt cool and fresh.
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Gary wears regulation Levi 501 jeans and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt .
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The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
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Or buy a tailored polo shirt that fits?
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Right Long-sleeve polo shirt , £16.99; trousers, fencer's own.
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He was wearing a blue blazer and a white polo shirt .
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt .
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Everybody here is dressed for the Love Boat, in shorts, polo shirts and Reeboks.
silk
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Ash wore a long, rough silk shirt , and leggings.
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The man was dressed in a white duck suit and a pale-blue silk shirt and a grey silk tie.
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He had on a white silk shirt , black slacks, and black loafers.
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Pale blue silk shirt , £175, Giorgio Armani.
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He gave Margarett one of his monogrammed silk shirts to use as a smock.
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Slight, fair, silk shirt , tight pants, and he walks as though he wants to wee-wee.
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He put on his silk shirt with a few chains underneath.
sleeve
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Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves .
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Her shirt sleeve falls open at the cuff as she turns back, and I see the razor marks on her wrist.
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Dickinson, in shirt sleeves , shuddered.
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Because his shoulders are narrow, he never works in his shirt sleeves , and is seldom seen publicly in casual clothes.
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Tweed was clad in shirt sleeves and a pair of lightweight slacks as he stared out of his office window.
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He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers.
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His tie was loose and he was in his shirt sleeves .
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Tattoos peek out from shirt sleeves .
sweat
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Theresa was wearing jeans and a grubby sweat shirt with a map of London's Underground across the front.
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You could buy a hooded sweat shirt for $ 25 yesterday.
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He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.
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The uniform is topped by a T-shirt and sweat shirt for men and women.
tee
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I bought some lucky white heather and a silver horseshoe from a little girl in jeans and a grubby tee shirt .
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The arms of the tee shirt barely rounded the curve of his shoulders, the hem hung an inch above his navel.
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He was a pleasant chap with blond curls and a Mickey Mouse tee shirt on.
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James Walker wore a white tee shirt not quite large enough to accommodate his biceps and pectorals.
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She was wearing a huge orange tee shirt and black leggings and looked exactly as she always looked.
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Tillman compressed his lips and, with a butter knife, dug at a smudge of paste stuck to his tee shirt .
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Neither barber, in their tight-fitting tee shirts and faded bathing trunks, appeared lacking in backbone or mettle.
■ VERB
buy
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Wandering out to buy shirts and more cigarettes.
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Give up trying to buy souvenir shirt .
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Or else - more generously - I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son.
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Or buy a tailored polo shirt that fits?
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Why am I buying two shirts for one son and only one for the other?
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Readers can buy shirts , maps, Route 66 wristwatches or videos.
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He had bought a new white shirt and was wearing a regimental tie which had cost him tuppence in a jumble sale.
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He pulled a hundred-bill from his wallet and told me to buy a new shirt .
iron
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Diana was so chummy with him she even used to iron his shirts .
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Margaret had ironed me some shirts and draped them over a clothes-horse in the hail.
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Well, he can iron his best shirts .
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As the neatly ironed shirt billows out a special effect signifies the effects of Bold.
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Do you want to iron his shirts for 50 years?
lose
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In the subsequent furore, I nearly lost my Leeds shirt to a rabid band of Man U supporting women.
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In both cases you can lose your shirt .
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In short, can a man lose his wife without losing his shirt and his kids as well?
pull
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Just pull his shirt out and mess up his hair a little, and his friends would be happy.
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He violently pulled out his shirt and stomped his feet on the ground.
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She jumped out of bed and, pulling on her shirt , darted next door into the head.
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He pulled his shirt from his stomach where it had stuck with his sweat.
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I pushed in a couple of pessaries, untied the sack from my middle and pulled my shirt over my head.
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The back door flew open and Norm rushed in, pulling off his filthy shirt .
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She had pulled her shirt around her but apart from that she had not moved.
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She pulled off the shirt , too.
put
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For leisure, put on chainstore polo-type shirt and slacks.
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Gabriel put on his white shirt and scarlet tabard with the gold embroidery.
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I had put on a fresh shirt , and yet my skin itched.
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He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink.
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He put on his silk shirt with a few chains underneath.
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He decided to put his two drip-dry shirts through the washer that night.
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Some of the delegation had put on long-sleeve shirts .
stuff
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I stuffed my shirt tail back into my trousers and tried to straighten my tie.
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And a multitude of stuffed owls, peering through the candlelight, would mutely rebuke stuffed shirts .
undo
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Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
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His flies were undone and his shirt torn.
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She began to undo the third shirt .
wear
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Welcome to torso city: these lads don't wear shirts .
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Lyle, wearing a plaid shirt , stared gape-mouthed at Conn.
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She often made me feel vaguely guilty, as if I'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt .
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The players wore short-sleeve white shirts , long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
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He's ruled out through injury so Colin Anderson will wear the number 3 shirt .
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He wore a black pullover shirt , short-sleeve, and a pair of dark chinos.
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He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep your hair/shirt on!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I have to wear a shirt and tie to work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A young man looked at Ozzie, who was standing in the hallway, smiling, in his shirt and dusty Jeans.
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Dann opened the door himself, looking warm and sticky in a pink short-sleeved shirt and bright green slacks.
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His jeans and checked shirt , though old and well worn, looked clean and of good quality.
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Janir slipped off his shirt and pants and dove under the sheets.
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Or else - more generously - I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son.
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She might never have ironed shirts, but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises, little presents.
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Three buttons were missing from his shirt .