- present participle of wad.
wadding
Example Sentences
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The court also heard from Lucy Ness, who was given an urn containing "wadding and pieces of bone" instead of her baby's ashes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
Soldiers sometimes carried cartridges, which were powder and ball pre-wrapped in wadding, ready to be rammed down the barrel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
The covering of them was torn and filthy and the wadding stuck out of the holes, grey and sodden.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
