"shirt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For an instant I thought the gun had misfired, but then I saw the ruffian stop, as a steady dark stain spread across his threadbare shirt.
- The skiff was tossed about a little by the waves resulting from Temeraire's frolics, and occasionally swamped, but Laurence had prudently worn only an old pair of breeches and his most threadbare shirt.
- First and foremost she was in her night attire, if night attire was not too grand a term to describe the slightly ratty, threadbare old man's shirt she was wearing.
- He put on a threadbare shirt over his shorts and, taking the lantern, he crossed the floor to the single open window.
- Generally this works, but last week I felt the need to unburden myself of two threadbare shirts that even I realised had outlived any usefulness.
- But you wear old clothes and Kaelin has threadbare shirts.
- His trousers were torn and tattered, buttons were missing from his faded, almost threadbare shirt, but he held himself erect and looked directly into Santana's eyes as he spoke.
- His clothes were in as beleaguered a state as the rest of him; his threadbare shirt and jeans glued to his malnourished body with filth.
- Inside Nazma's classroom, her teacher, in a threadbare white shirt and trousers, gripped his bamboo rod and demanded angrily, "Two plus two, who knows the answer?"
- She was in khaki shorts and a man's threadbare white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
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