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

In recent years, the northern end of Post Alley has become a circus funhouse of wadded, spittle-hardened goo.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023

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

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2022

It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck