wadded

Example Sentences

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“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

In recent years, the northern end of Post Alley has become a circus funhouse of wadded, spittle-hardened goo.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023

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

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2022

This team still has some infuriating tendencies, but it possesses one major redeeming quality: It hasn’t wasted a year that easily could have been wadded and tossed.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2017

As Ben agonized over a blank memory, Mr. Loring busied himself by walking around the room removing scraps of paper that were wadded and thrown under each desk in the room.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy