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How to use mitt in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Mitt means a mitten. Example: “Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!”

Examples of mitt by meaning

nounA hand.

  • Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!
  • "Give us yer mitts, mate," said Alf.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 134

More sentences with mitt

  • Brock’s foot touched the plate just as he and Freehan’s mitt with the ball in it met.2007, David Renner, Memoirs of a Fool, I, page 171. From the entry pride wenteth before a fall
  • I played jackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars.2019 February 6, Amanda Zhang, “Amanda Zhang: There's no shame in liking "Twilight"”, in The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University…. From the entry jackpot
  • Mitts curled all the way up the arms, eyes bulged out of bulbs, beaks chittered and tongues scraped on crabshells.2017, Jeremy Tyrrell, Tedrick Gritswell of Borobo Reef. From the entry crabshell
  • An alternative is pogies: mitts that extend over the hands, wrists, and a portion of the paddle shaft.2012, Dan Henderson, Sea Kayaking: Basic Skills, Paddling Techniques, and Expedition Planning, page 27. From the entry pogie
  • The swim fins and paddle mitts are the only means of steering and propulsion as no paddle is carried on a river bug.2012, Melville Saayman, editor, Introduction to Sports Tourism and Event Management, Sun Press, page 341. From the entry river bug
  • Mitt Romney, announcing his retirement, at the age of seventy-six, wasn't wrong to declare that it is time for a new generation of leaders to take the helm.2023 September 24, David Remnick, “The Washington Gerontocracy”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry incumbent
  • The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.1997, “By The Seat Of His Pants”, in Ski, volume 61, number 7, →ISSN, page 22. From the entry inspiration
  • Western kids often wore what they called “garbage mitts”—padded for heavy duty by city workers—instead of hockey gloves; Maritimers used their father’s work gauntlets, with heavy leather up the wrists.1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77. From the entry garbage mitt

Meaning of mitt

  1. noun A mitten.
  2. noun An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. noun A hand.

Full definition of mitt

Questions about mitt in a sentence

How do you use mitt in a sentence?
Mitt is used as a noun. For example: “Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!”
What is a short sentence with mitt?
“"Give us yer mitts, mate," said Alf.”
What does mitt mean?
Mitt means a mitten.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mitt (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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