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Examples of glove compartment in a Sentence
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While this travel-friendly iteration is small enough to fit anywhere from your everyday satchel to your glove compartment, its formula stacks up to the original by providing tousled, separated texture and a warm, earthy, slightly nutty scent.
—Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 16 Apr. 2024
Texas Tech students and West Texans eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night, pack them in backpacks for later and carry an emergency burrito in the glove compartment for long drives.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
In the latter case, he was pulled over in his father’s BMW and refused to take a sobriety test—the police found an empty mouthwash bottle in the glove compartment—and an Okaloosa County deputy arrested him.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Emergency Thermal Blankets: Stay prepared for winter challenges by storing emergency thermal blankets in your glove compartment.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
Weighing less than a pound and about the size of a standard book, these binoculars can easily slip into your day bag or glove compartment and won’t be a millstone around your neck.
—Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
For instance, officers may look into the glove compartment of a car and see if there are valuables.
—Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Police found a silver Harrington & Richardson Arms 5-shot revolver in the truck’s glove compartment, according to charging documents.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
On the front seatbacks, leather gives way to a cheaper-looking black plastic covering that also makes its way to the glove compartment.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1916, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of glove compartment was
in 1916
Dictionary Entries Near glove compartment
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“Glove compartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glove%20compartment. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
glove compartment
noun
: a small storage cabinet in the dashboard of an automobile
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