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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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He told jurors he ran after the boy for about 25 seconds and continued to shout "stop" and saw that a black glove had been dropped.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

It flew high and outside, off the end of catcher Will Smith’s glove and to the edge of the grass behind home plate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Skubal strutted off the mound, hit the palm of his glove twice, and slapped hands with catcher Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Yes, it flew in on the goalkeeper's side of the wall and he didn't lay a glove on it.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

An empty glove, worthless without a hand to fill it.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

“Some of the officers have also reported ‘feeling burned’ after touching their skin with the same gloves that were used to handle the chemical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Stern, who coaches a team of 9- and 10-year-olds in Huntington Beach, Calif., said it is common for kids to have two or three bats and multiple gloves to play different positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

She saw the child, who was fully dressed with gloves on, and thought it was a doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

As her husband of more than 40 years lay dying in a hospital bed, Kate Baxter was not even allowed to hold his hand without wearing protective gloves.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Beneath the knives is a pair of cut-resistant gloves and a book.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

A gloved hand comes out of the picture to grab them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

During a stop at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, an owl perched on her gloved arm made her squeal like the girl she had been during her first visit there on a grade-school field trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

He takes a small step toward me, his gloved hand sliding slowly up the length of the pool cue, his eyes cautious as my heart begins to race.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

"This business is very significant because it's been here since 1862. It's the last of the old gloving businesses in Yeovil," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2023

Anderson, after gloving the puck, knocked the puck off Rakell’s stick in a blunder that gave the Penguins life.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

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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