GLOVE in a Sentence

Learn GLOVE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For GLOVE, below is one of 185 sentences:
It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLOVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glove
 n.  the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
 n.  boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing
Classic Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
1  I know what I'm talking about, for I'm hand in glove with the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  He made no move to her but stared, gripping the glove tightly in both hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
3  "If I've ever been strong, it was because she was behind me," he said, his voice breaking, and he looked down at the glove and smoothed the fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
4  He stood silent before her, clutching the glove as though it were an understanding hand and, in the stillness that followed her words, her indignation fell away and pity, tinged with contempt, took its place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
5  Galvanized by her words, he ran into the hall, the glove still clasped closely in his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
6  Her hand disappeared in his blackened leather glove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  His fingertip crept through the opening of her glove and smoothed her palm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  She snatched her hand away, stripped off her glove, tucked her hand back into his.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  She realized that she still carried the damp glove she had stripped off for Erik.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  All the time he was praying, grandmother watched him through the black fingers of her glove, and when he said 'Amen,' I thought she looked satisfied with him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
11  As we walked together up the windy street, Lena wiped her eyes with the back of her woollen glove.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
12  Once, and once only, was she completely successful; when she broke down the bough of a large sumach, and by a sudden thought, let her glove fall at the same instant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  George drew off his glove, and showed a newly-healed scar in his hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  The shake brought the glove on to the floor, from the other sleeve.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  And she waved her hand upon which there was a glove, and under the glove it seemed rings, at old Mr. Oliver.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The ball skipped off Bonds' glove and bounced toward the fence.
2  She bent down to pick up her glove.
3  Kid - glove methods haven't worked it's time to get tough.
4  She peeled off her glove to reveal a wedding ring.
5  The fist is still there, but it wears that infamous velvet glove.
6  Peeking through a slit he spied a man hand a boy a baseball glove, though he could not see their faces.
7  It disappeared in his glove; and, with one hasty nod and "good-afternoon," he vanished.
8  Remember that this is caustic; use gloves or a spoon.
9  The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes.
10  In presidential campaigns, foreign policy is treated with kid gloves.
11  Such overly sensitive people must be handled with kid gloves.
12  I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today.
13  We sell pots, gloves, seeds and other gardening paraphernalia.
14  It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.
15  His fingers protrude from the holes in his gloves.