How to redirect a list of human readable paths to another command?

When working with the output of commands such as locate which produce lists of paths in "human readable form" (i.e. without \ in front of spaces), how do you redirect their output to another command? The output of $ locate [something] produces paths with spaces in them, which inhibits other programs to use the paths in the case they contain spaces. For example, if I were to $ du -h locate *.doc this will produce an error on all files and directories that contain spaces. (wrapping the ticks in spaces does not work)