wadded

The director Craig Belknap finds ingenuity in simplicity, as with a dishcloth that, at one point, is wadded up into a basketball then later flattened against the waist into a too-tight dress.

All that shiny wrapping paper and ribbon, for instance, wadded into non-recyclable mounds.

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

So I had wadded up half a roll of toilet paper, stuffed it between my legs, and went across the street to Fred’s.

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