wadded

Example Sentences

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“My color man took all the press notes, wadded them up and hit the tarantula like swinging a bat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

During a sleepover that October, a group of Holy Child students took wadded up newspaper pages and stuck them in the chain-link fence on Linden Lane, spelling out “SURRENDER DOROTHY.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023

The painting is a large-scale, squarish, predominantly black canvas, with two pairs of actual woolen pants wadded up on the surface.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

The man with the dog had started picking up wadded up paper towels.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2022

It was empty, just as I’d thought, but at one of the tables near the front there was an eloquent little nest of books, wadded paper, and greasy potato-chip bags.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt