wadding

Example Sentences

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The next day I woke up and I thought” — he mimes wadding up a piece of paper and tossing it away — ‘That’s never going to happen.’

From Los Angeles Times

It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.

From BBC

On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.

From Los Angeles Times

Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they’re soft, even slightly yielding.

From New York Times

He even recalls wadding up a piece of paper and throwing it in the trash in dismay.

From Washington Post