wadded
Example Sentences
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The crowd was further energized by the presence of longtime Count Basie drummer Jo Jones—sitting near the stage, keeping time with a wadded up Christian Science Monitor newspaper—and even more so by Elaine Anderson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“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
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.
From New York Times ● May 4, 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
Then, crumpling the paper in his fist, he wadded it around the lead ball, poking both into the barrel mouth.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
