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Example sentences for "gloved"

Lexicographically close words:
glossy; glottal; glottis; gloue; glove; glovers; gloves; glow; glowed; glower
  1. In a few moments, he returned, raising his right, white-gloved hand to the visor of his cap.

  2. Another white-gloved midshipman entered, raising his hand smartly to his cap in salute.

  3. Once inside, they were ushered, by a white-gloved midshipman, into the office of Commander Jephson, commandant of midshipmen.

  4. In walked the white-gloved cadet assistant officer of the day.

  5. Well, we slipped by the drug-store sign all right," Dan confided to the white-gloved midshipman.

  6. One of his gloved hands was stretched out stiff on his knee.

  7. She raised her veil and dabbed at her face with a little, not-too-clean handkerchief, screwed up in her yellow-gloved hand.

  8. She slipped her yellow-gloved hand through his arm.

  9. A little further a radiant being, all chiffons and millinery, on her way to Bond Street for more millinery and chiffons, smiled at me and put forth a delicately-gloved hand.

  10. She touched the sleeve of my coat with her gloved hand.

  11. The professor sprang to his full height of four feet and dashed away his tears with a noble gesture of his black-gloved hand.

  12. She was quite motionless now, her rather large, ill-gloved hands in her lap.

  13. She supported herself against the table, with a shaking gloved hand.

  14. In the princess something snapped: she recoiled upon herself, sat crushed, head drooping, white-gloved hands working in her lap.

  15. He extends his gloved hand, which she receives with evident reluctance.

  16. Suddenly his attention seems riveted on the private box, in which sits the stately figure of Madame Montford, flanked in a half-circle by her perfumed and white-gloved admirers.

  17. Silently, unprotestingly, the woman obeyed him, raising her gloved hands and lifting the veil from her face.

  18. A slight breeze set the hatchet-board creaking above my head, as I held my gloved hands about the pine-vesta.

  19. Smith stood looking down at her, his arms behind him, and in one gloved hand swinging the cane.

  20. But what will surprise you is that, contrary to the present custom, it was absolutely forbidden to appear gloved before great personages.

  21. Léonce understood," then says the author, "that he had signed with his gloved hand.

  22. Nancy stood motionless, petrified with shame, her face hidden in her white-gloved hands.

  23. Where did men lift little children up that they might touch her dress, and women, jostled in the crowd, with hats awry, fight for a glimpse of the fair nodding head, for a touch of the little gloved hand?

  24. The lady now leant back against the dingy marble shelf and laid one white-gloved arm along it, in an attitude that was positively regal.

  25. Least expected of them all, there was Schreiermeyer, with a basket of grape fruit in his tightly-gloved podgy hands; and he was smiling cheerfully, which was an event in itself.

  26. She idly tapped the knuckles of her gloved hand with the small envelope.

  27. She was standing before the fire spreading her gloved hands to the blaze, as if she were cold.

  28. And now the officer who performed the introduction took Mrs Gunning's gloved hand, very stately, and led her before the Throne.

  29. Mrs Darcy applauded with her gloved hands, and sparkling eyes.

  30. Oh yes, the fear had dropped, and she had never been so irrevocably parted with as in the pressure of possession now supremely exerted by Ida's long-gloved and much-bangled arm.

  31. Beneath the sleeves of the black overcoat, his gloved hands gripped a pair of suitcases.

  32. At seven o'clock," agreed Don, as the girl turned with one gloved hand on the gate latch.

  33. May’s gloved hand sought hers with a swift, involuntary gesture.

  34. The first flash of her fingers across the keys was the signal for general silence, and the clapping of gloved hands at the conclusion of the brilliant overture attested intelligent appreciation.

  35. The shrewd face jerked fretfully, and the lips were opened for a retort, checked by a gloved hand laid upon the forward child’s.

  36. But, at the hard closing snap of the case, another cold shiver ran through his nerves; and he walked on faster, clenching his gloved hands in the pockets of his coat, almost hoping she would not be in.

  37. John gave his arm silently to Lucy, who took it with a gesture of affection, and patted it once or twice with her kid-gloved hand, which lover-like demonstrations John accepted rather solemnly.

  38. She looked a childish, helpless, babyfied little creature; and Robert looked down upon her with some touch of pity in his eyes, as she came up to the hearth by which he was standing, and warmed her tiny gloved hands at the blaze.

  39. My lady was so terribly fatigued that she could only smile sweetly, and hold out a tiny gloved hand to her nephew by marriage.

  40. She seemed very well pleased to see Robert, and smiled most bewitchingly as she gave him her exquisitely gloved little hand.

  41. She did not seem to notice particularly when I raised the gloved hand I held and pressed it to my lips at parting.

  42. Miss May, putting one of her gloved hands on my arm.

  43. He was wringing her little gloved hand violently as he spoke.

  44. He shook the black-gloved hand of the fashionable minister heartily; then his face grew rueful with a sudden recollection.

  45. She filled the pipe, full measure and running over; he took it by the stem, her warm gloved fingers grazing his chilly bare hand and suffusing him with a delicious thrill.

  46. Emmie made a fluttering movement of her gloved hands, then folded them on her lap, and with puckered brows looked across the sea to the faint silver line of the horizon.

  47. Miss Verinder stood near a boat that hung inboard on its davits, with her gloved hand on the rail and her gauze scarf gently stirring in the friendly breeze, while she talked and smiled, gaily and cheerfully.

  48. And suddenly he saw again Irene's grey-gloved hand waving its last gesture of release.

  49. A vase on it was full of Iceland poppies; the girl raised her hand and touched them with a gloved finger.

  50. His gloved hands were clasped in front over the handle of his umbrella.

  51. Suddenly she lifted her gloved hand, her lips smiled faintly, her dark eyes seemed to speak.

  52. His eyes must have had in them something of George Forsyte's sardonic look; for her gloved hand crisped the folds of her frock, her eyebrows rose, her face went stony.

  53. When she looked round with the finished note Fleur was still touching the poppies with her gloved finger.

  54. But Irene had not moved; in her gloved hands she ceaselessly turned and twisted the little bunch of violets.

  55. Her hands, gloved in French grey, were crossed one over the other, her grave, charming face held to one side, and the eyes of all men near were fastened on it.

  56. Here grassed hills rose like knuckles gloved in dark olive, and little plantations between them formed a still deeper and sadder monochrome.

  57. From nearly all these springs we obtained specimens of the adjoining incrustations, all of which were too hot to be held for more than a moment even with the gloved hand.

  58. Under the whole of this incrustation the hottest fires seem to be raging, and the heat issuing from the vents or from the crevices caused from the breaking in of the surface is too intense to be borne by the gloved hand for an instant.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.