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
• 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
• 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
• In some ways, Danny is handling her sister with kid gloves because of Danny’s own guilt.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the confident Angel Vergara (Méndez) opens a studio too close for comfort, the kid gloves come off since this new guy on the block refuses to acquiesce to her.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• There’s no overthinking or kid gloves when initiating change.
  — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
• No one here needs to be handled with kid gloves.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
• 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