padding

Example Sentences

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Les Bleus, as the team is known, will be perusing the breakfast buffet and padding around the plush carpets of Boston’s Four Seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Each participant must wear trousers, with straw available for them to create a layer of padding on their shins.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Their regular season consists of priming pitchers for October, not padding their resumes for awards.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

It requires padding, helmets, tape, playbooks, film and 22 players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker