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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
Synonyms


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There is no glove box—and thus no place to keep the enormous owner’s manual, except in the concealed stowage under the console, where I would normally put my purse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Skubal induced Báez to fly out to center field and punched the palm of his glove on his way off the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Early in the second, a right hook knocked Hrgovic off-balance and his glove touched the canvas.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In that sense, the court works hand in glove with the American people to create this mythology of the oracular balls-and-strikes court.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

I pound my glove, feel for the whiteboard, and then pretend I’m taking away a home run with a leaping grab.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

She and a dozen colleagues don cotton gloves, roll up their sleeves and plant themselves on cheap plastic stools for the task of separating out the valuable, intact mushrooms from the busted ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Smith suffered a tough Ashes tour, yet has shown signs of rehabilitation with bat and wicketkeeping gloves this summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

As the Senegalese engineers assemble their satellite -- wearing hairnets and white gloves as they probe a miniature black box, small enough to be held with one hand -- two destinations have become a priority.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

In two minutes, Ilse and Karin come out with their hats and gloves on, suitcases in their hands.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Roebuck immediately recognized the long gun in the man’s gloved hands.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Again, it mattered little with the U.S. getting that goal back three minutes later with Tillman bending a free kick from the top of the box off Vasilj’s gloved right hand and into the net.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Nicholls, on 42, gloved an attempted hook down the leg side and Rew parried the ball high to his right.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

She did not want to meet another Miss Glenda Fae Hawkins or Miss Susannah Sally Peters, had no desire to face their smiles and clucking and gloved hands.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Pope, standing baseball style, miscued Cameron Green on 42 and Root only survived gloving behind in the same over because Green overstepped.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

Tatar gave the Devils breathing room about a minute later, gloving down the rebound of Mercer’s shot and beating Skinner.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

The Santa Margarita shortstop couldn’t have played it any better, gloving the ball and firing it to first.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2022

In public, we now cover and constrain ourselves as never before, masking our faces, gloving our hands.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020

They could not but smile, but waited for the king, who, when he had had his laugh out, explained the allusion to the Conqueror’s leather dressing and gloving lineage.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson




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