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Past tense of sleeve

regular verb

The past tense of sleeve is sleeved. The past participle is also sleeved.

Forms of sleeve

Base form (V1)sleeve /sliːv/
Past tense (V2)sleeved
Past participle (V3)sleeved
Present participlesleeving
Third person singularsleeves /sliːvz/

Sleeved in a sentence

  • The T-shirty sweater shown below is long sleeved beige knit, ringed with navy-blue.1966 August 16, The News Tribune, 84th year, number 60, Tacoma, Wash., page 6. From the entry t-shirty
  • A bawneen was a kind of sleeved waistcoat, buttoning up the front.1934, George A. Birmingham, Pleasant places. From the entry bawneen
  • The upper classes wear a sleeved polka jacket instead of the bodice.1911, “India”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. From the entry polka jacket
  • Men also wore kosovorotki, which are long sleeved shirts that reach down to the mid-thigh and only have buttons at the collar.2018 March, Liubov Ben-Nun, “Russian Clothes”, in The Roots of Clothing: From Ancient Times to the Present, Israel: B.N. Publication…. From the entry kosovorotka
  • Robert Dene of Sussex (14th century) bore "Gules a quarter azure 'embelif,' or aslant, and thereon a sleeved arm and hand of silver."1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita, page 320. From the entry embelif

Meaning of sleeve

  1. noun The part of a garment that covers the arm.
  2. noun A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
  3. noun A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.

Full definition of sleeve

Questions about the past tense of sleeve

What is the past tense of sleeve?
The past tense of sleeve is sleeved.
What is the past participle of sleeve?
The past participle of sleeve is sleeved.
Is sleeve a regular or irregular verb?
Sleeve is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeve (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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