wadding

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.

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

If you have areas that look especially grungy, keep the bleach solution pooled there by wadding up short lengths of toilet tissue and pressing them against the stained areas with the toothbrush when it’s loaded with the bleach solution.

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.

“Excellent,” giggled Mr. Peckleman, crumbling the thirty-two cards in his hand, wadding them up into one extremely flammable paper ball.