How to Use hand in glove in a Sentence

hand in glove

adverb
  • We are working hand in glove with local officials to solve the problem.
  • The screenplay folded into the six novellas hand in glove.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Europe’s border force works hand in glove with the Libyan coast guard to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2021
  • On the Italian side of things, everyone knows that pizza is a hand in glove pairing with beer.
    Bob Townsend, ajc, 16 Oct. 2019
  • This approach echoes old-fashioned ideas like careers of conviction and the fact that work and leisure can work hand in glove.
    John F. McVea, Star Tribune, 27 June 2021
  • Then again, this is France; rebellion and fashion have always gone hand in glove.
    Jeffrey Westbrook. Styled By Will Kahn, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Intimacy and decadence can and should be hand in glove.
    Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Form and content never fit more hand in glove than in Doyle’s paratactic pilings on.
    Scott F. Parker | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Archaeology works hand in glove here with settler efforts to press Jewish claims on the land.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • At the center of this story was the emergence of an industrial labor movement working hand in glove with the party of Franklin Roosevelt.
    Sam Rosenfeld, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Both the extravagant show and the opulent, historic Colonial seem to fit together like hand in glove.
    Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • The death penalty lays greater claim to retributory justice than other sentences, for, as noted, the crime and the punishment go hand in glove, with no judgment involved.
    WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Security should be built into every process, with software, IT and security teams working hand in glove, day by day.
    Joshua Bixby, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Reporting this week is that the United States is sort of hand in glove with the Brits on this investigation every step of the way and some horrifying, horrifying developments coming out of that.
    Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Equally interesting is the Ag side, where the company works hand in glove with big farming operations to set anaerobic digesters directly on their site.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • Playing the good guy, Charles Bronson projects little charisma, and his unfeeling performance works hand in glove with Winner's clodhopper direction.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Later Buzzfeed uncovered documents showing Yiannopoulos himself had been working hand in glove with outright white supremacists to promote their views under his moderate facade.
    Ryan Cooper, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018

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