How to Use kid glove in a Sentence

kid glove

noun

• As the season winds down, expect the Spurs to continue to treat bumps and bruises with kid gloves.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The biopic does not handle those circumstances with kid gloves.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
• Nor is there anything wrong with Trump’s not treating the Chinese or the South Koreans with kid gloves.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
• Sporting a Juliet cap and kid gloves, Kelly looked every bit a bona fide princess.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 29 Sep. 2017
• Compared to the violent clashes of 1971, these protests are handled with kid gloves.
  — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• He's been very critical of James Comey for giving Hillary Clinton the kid glove treatment.
  — Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• The way McKinzie sees it, the wealthier parts of town do get kid glove treatment from higher-ups both at the police department and City Hall.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 30 May 2021
• In recent history, America has dealt with grifters like Trump with kid gloves.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 23 Oct. 2017
• They were treated with kid gloves by colleagues and bosses afraid to upset them or worried about their toughness, Elsbach says.
  — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2018
• What appears to have been the two times that the police have been called on protesters—this past week, and then yesterday—is apparently much more kid gloves.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
• Anglers lucky enough to catch a Legacy Lunker can do the bass and the biologist a favor by handling the fish with kid gloves before turning it over to the department.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2020
• DeSantis and Haley handled Trump with kid gloves but used boxing gloves on each other.
  — Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Naturally, footage of scrums was treated with kid gloves — danced around by the commentators, the focus put elsewhere.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• By virtue of his social standing and the crimes of which he is accused, Defendant Trump is already getting the privileged process and kid gloves extended to white-collar defendants.
  — Elliot Williams, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• Mindful of how the old military regime persecuted the pious, Japan’s police long treated religious groups with kid gloves.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Russia treated them with kid gloves, trusting—for the moment—Turkey’s U.S. guarantee of protection.
  — Andrew L. Peek, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016
• Either way, Reus’ situation is up in the air, and for now, Terzic will have to navigate a situation with kid gloves not to jeopardize Dortmund’s strong season.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
• The lesbian relationship — handled with kid gloves in history books — is fleshed out here, beautifully.
  — Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• And Ferris’ script handles some of the more unsavory accusations about Berry’s personal life with kid gloves — or ignores them altogether.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• People were espousing outright fascist views and the mainstream media was there to cover it, sometimes with kid gloves, normalizing abhorrent ideas.
  — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Despite all of this, Republicans have treated him with kid gloves, if not gone to the mattresses for the man who is simultaneously their party’s most incandescent celebrity and its greatest liability.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024