How to Use kid glove in a Sentence

kid glove

noun
  • No one here needs to be handled with kid gloves.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The best thing to do is to handle it with kid gloves rather than being triggered.
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 13 July 2025
  • The biopic does not handle those circumstances with kid gloves.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
  • There’s this weird thing that happens as people get older where the world starts to treat them with kid gloves.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Sporting a Juliet cap and kid gloves, Kelly looked every bit a bona fide princess.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 29 Sep. 2017
  • There’s no overthinking or kid gloves when initiating change.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In some ways, Danny is handling her sister with kid gloves because of Danny’s own guilt.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • In recent history, America has dealt with grifters like Trump with kid gloves.
    — David Dayen, New Republic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Compared to the violent clashes of 1971, these protests are handled with kid gloves.
    — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But he’s been treated with kid gloves in Broward because of a corrupt Democratic machine here.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 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
  • DeSantis and Haley handled Trump with kid gloves but used boxing gloves on each other.
    — Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • He's been very critical of James Comey for giving Hillary Clinton the kid glove treatment.
    — Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • But can a masculine ideal, with its air of invincibility, get molded without such kid gloves?
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2025
  • That made kid gloves the perfect choice for a servant handling fine silverware, where even a fingerprint could spoil the dinner presentation.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The lesbian relationship — handled with kid gloves in history books — is fleshed out here, beautifully.
    — Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Even as their stable continued to grow over the years, the family handled every acquisition with kid gloves and the utmost respect.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The grim specter of the potential chaos associated with the collapse of the Kim regime in the event of war has led neighboring countries to treat it with kid gloves.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2010
  • The board holds management accountable for performance, not pulling punches or treating them with kid gloves, but does so supportively with an eye towards growth.
    — Doug Sundheim, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The move sent shivers through the diplomatic community, which has since handled Mohamed’s government with kid gloves.
    — Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Edward may not face grade-school cruelty anymore, but being treated with kid gloves by people who won’t actually be upfront about what’s on their mind is its own kind of torment.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Until then, Nuveen’s BDC clearly isn’t treating the dividend with kid gloves.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • So instead of making these obvious points to union provocateurs such as Davis Gates, our political leaders treat her with kid gloves.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the script veers into simplistic territory too often despite its honesty and balance, engaging the subject matter with kid gloves.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
  • Altman reclaimed his OpenAI throne last November, but in just the past couple of weeks has hardly been treated with kid gloves.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 May 2024

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