mitten
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Ironically, I couldn’t find the office — no one, not even the information desk, knew where it was — but they very kindly walked my mitten over to me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
The day he arrived, on the bottom of a fishing boat, along with about 80 seasick travellers, he was hired by a mitten factory.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Hemlock is a small town located in the crook of the Michigan mitten, between the thumb and the fingers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
They can mirror each other precisely, but a left mitten will never fit the right hand as well as it fits the left hand.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
Madge is waiting at the intersection, red mitten waving, trombone case at her feet.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
She even resisted when Rachel opened a used bookstore several years ago in Southwest Ohio and based her holiday windows on “Little House,” decorated with red mittens and lit-up log cabins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It warms the inside and lets you study the cold without mittens.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
"I communicate with Nuuk from this tablet," Mathiassen said, pulling off her sealskin mittens to turn on the device.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
While outside, the NHS advises that babies and children should wear several layers of clothes to keep warm, including a hat and mittens to stop heat loss.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
The other girls were not jealous because Laura had mittens, and candy, and a doll, because Laura was the littlest girl, except Baby Carrie and Aunt Eliza’s little baby, Dolly Varden.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
