- present participle of wad.
wadding
Example Sentences
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The court also heard from Lucy Ness, who was given an urn containing "wadding and pieces of bone" instead of her baby's ashes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
They lack the deadly bullet point, which is usually replaced with cotton or paper wadding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
The operator would pour a measure of powder down the barrel, drop a projectile on top, then ram in a piece of wadding to hold everything in place.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
He might be a little cold this day without the wadding of the winter garments, but he suddenly could not bear to put them on against his clean flesh.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
