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She explained that the sortie began with military precision around 9pm on Monday, that all of those who attacked their homes were wearing surgical gloves , masks and combat uniforms, that they arrived with wheelie bins stuffed with bricks, bottles and other missiles, and that the entire attack appeared to be well organised.
It's safe to say that they don't exactly handle the song with kid gloves.
Sampi is dressed as if for winter, her hands in woollen gloves , a scarf draped around her neck, wearing a thick jumper.
I was wearing white cotton gloves while leafing through Wills' manuscript – standard practice when handling such old archival paper.
Intermittently I was compelled to peel the gloves off and head for the bathroom to wash my hands.
The restrictions on imports, combined with the high rate of inflation in Argentina's economy, South America's second-largest, have led in recent years to periodic shortages of pharmaceutical products including latex gloves and needles.
Crewman John Webster and I check the vehicle; it must be clean and equipped with wheelchairs, stretchers, gloves , dressings and oxygen.
Through the dissolution of a suburban marriage - by way of boredom, lovelessness and the fact that, when the wife's pruning shears match her gardening gloves , it is no accident - the film suggests there is beauty next to you, that you can reach out and touch it, that people are not what they seem and that everyone's life is infinitely more interesting than they think it is.
When the beetroot are cooked, drain, then slip off their skins – wear washing-up gloves so you don't stain your fingers pink; this will also protect them from the hot beets (if need be, leave the beets to cool a little first).
Can they render complex ideas, such as a person who wears gloves to throw snowballs (Handschuhschneeballwerfer) or a man who pees sitting down (Sitzpinkler) in one deliciously singular word?
In New York, the entire winter has been filled with weather advisories, along with freezing rain, decreased blood circulation, sleet, swipes right, unused gym memberships, compromised public transportation infrastructure, depression, lassitude, lonely gloves , too much binge-watching, opportunistic slush of a certain sentience and the first 2,000 words of novels in various states of abandonment.
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The primary grammatical function of "gloves" is as a plural noun . As confirmed by Ludwig AI, it refers to hand coverings. Examples from Ludwig show it used to describe various types of handwear for protection, warmth, or specific activities.
Expression frequency: Very common
