padding

Donning extra padding to protect his ribs, Watson re-entered the game with 4:01 remaining in the third quarter and was targeted on the first play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The padding provides short-term protection against broken bones, but at terrible long-term cost.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

And when one of us finally came padding down the wooden stairs, sleepy and rumpled and operating on a schedule she would never have personally endorsed, there was no reproach.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Next, I heard big hairy feet padding down the hall toward Miranda’s room.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something intolerable in their noiseless, ceaseless paddings over the pavement.

From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Fancy stitches and cunning invention which provided for thrice the usual number of cartridges told one tale; flannel paddings which sought to make of the military appointment a winter garment told another.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young

They swallowed their liqueurs, and the ashes of their cigars fell on the paddings of the furniture.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs. 

From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald