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    wad


    wadded


    wadding


    wads


    1. He hacked up a wad of phlegm and spit it into a nearby bowl


    2. I suggest that you add a small wad of peanut butter in the middle of the sticky mat


    3. He offers it to Russ, who grins, spits out his wad of chewing tobacco in a trashcan


    4. Jock does as he is told, pulling a wad of kitchen roll from the holder on the wall by the microwave, which he too wets under the tap so that he can clean himself up


    5. fair wad of money in front of him


    6. Bobby reached in his coat pocket, producing a thick wad of money folded


    7. One day God led me to the bridge over that part of the freeway and sure enough there was a wad of cassette tape there


    8. " There was a look of confusion on Galimoto's face as he stared at the wad of snot hanging from his finger tip


    9. Nicola's face was a wad of scorched flesh, her nose -- a nub of red with a single hole on its side which hissed with every breath she took


    10. Nathalia looked at the wad of sheets covering his groin and grinned

    11. I said I was and she asked me if I wad run to which I replied that


    12. “Help me blow my wad


    13. All of a sudden she started coughing and kept on and then a great wad of phlegm must have come up because she spat it into her hanky


    14. ” William dropped the wad of papers on a chair next to him


    15. Instead Clarence pulled a wad of papers out of his coat


    16. I embraced the Uzbek woman and gave her a wad of bills I hadn’t even counted


    17. Mind made up, he crossed to the small safe in the bottom of the wardrobe and took out a wad of twenty pound notes


    18. In slow motion, she pulled from it a fat wad of American one hundred dollar bills


    19. In the bathroom, she lifted the toilet tank cover and there, half submerged in water, a large wad of bills clung to the mechanism


    20. She watched, but only half saw on the other side of her pain Mike fishing the wad of soggy money from her handbag

    21. “Just wad it up old boy, and toss it in the rubbish, don’t you know


    22. All right! The redhead passions were really fired up! He grabbed a wad of that hair and twisted hard to draw her body across his leg, then pulled down till her head was on the floor


    23. The Sergeant returned with a large wad of Italian banknotes in his hand, which he and Colling re-counted


    24. She selected a young man, flashing a wad of bills in his fist, but different in that he wasn’t shouting


    25. She gawked at the instrument in amazement and pushed past to the next individual with a wad of currency, who readily agreed that one thousand, one hundred twenty-five was correct for five thousand Colones


    26. She spotted LP pushing a wad of notes into his wallet and asked, “How much did you win?”


    27. “Do you know what this is?” he asked, holding a wad of black tar


    28. Junya looked and saw a huge wad of cash on the floor


    29. Gerald reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash


    30. I try to swallow but it feels like I have a wad of cotton balls in my throat

    31. Marcus is sitting on the floor by the sink with a wad of paper towel pressed to his mouth


    32. Another small boy, recruited with the promise of a wad of rolled up banknotes


    33. She rolled off a wad of paper towels and soaked them with cold water


    34. A tall leery man was busy trying to get her attention as he pulled out a wad of notes and waved them in the air to try and tempt her, he smacked her behind as she bent over a little too close for her own comfort


    35. What happens if you put someone's eye out when shooting such a stupid thing as a paper wad? How would you feel if someone did the same thing to you, my man?


    36. A harried looking woman chewing a wad of gum then


    37. noisily chewing a wad of gum and her long slender legs were


    38. distracted by the wad of pink bubblegum perched on the tip of her


    39. same nickel sized wad of rubber for so long that the pink had faded


    40. things that might be growing in that last wad, seeing as how she

    41. in no uncertain terms that she was going to get rid of the wad, she


    42. as Lucy locked the door, she would grab a wad of toilet


    43. would then tuck the wad way in the back of the cabinet


    44. I shot my wad the minute I touched you, before I could even get it in


    45. Lorna pushed her out of the door after pressing a wad of money into her hand


    46. beholding the glory of this flattened, discoloured, wad of text,


    47. me in serious trouble, but when Peik had held out his wad of pages, and then cracked and sprinted into the sea, they had


    48. Jesse Plowshare pulled out a wad of handwritten notes and began to speak


    49. wad of cash from her coat, and led Batistuta out of the


    50. wad of soul hair into relaxed, shoulder length hair with the use of Jeffrey’s Hair Relaxer: a












































    1. Searching through his dresser, she discovered her old reliable, wadded up in the top drawer


    2. She tore one of my sleeves off, wadded it into a ball, and


    3. I wadded the torn sheets into a ball and deposited them in the trashcan behind Roy’s


    4. I got off my horse and, leaving Cuauhtzin on the saddle, undressed and wadded into the tidal water up to my neck


    5. Bast wadded up her bal of yarn and tossed it down the steps


    6. ” Jonathan watched in awe as she wiped the tears with the wadded up tissues


    7. Grasping the tines of the red-hot fork with a piece of wadded pant leg Elise seared the weeping lesion, letting out a terse ―shit,‖ as the cautery instrument cooled in the oozing flesh and had to be returned to the hot coals


    8. He took off his priest‘s robe and wadded it up in a ball as a pillow


    9. He took the note off the storm door, wadded it up and threw it in the rubber wastebasket


    10. There was the group of women who wadded out into the water

    11. Standing slowly, he peeled the latex off his hands and wadded them into a ball


    12. The next thing he knew, he was on top of her, pinning her down and stuffing a wadded up tee shirt into her mouth to silence her screams


    13. “For crying out loud, Stef!” Mitch jerked the box from the corner with both hands and held up the wadded papers


    14. Jacob wadded up the grim missive and tossed it


    15. It was all one great sweep, one great roll of earth up to heaven and of heaven down to earth, fresh and free and with a quality in the air of clear bright hardness she thought adorable after the wadded effect of the climate at home


    16. The sheets were wadded into a ball where Rich had left them at the foot of the


    17. as I saw her name, I wadded up the paper and threw it in


    18. The knives were not sharpened, nor the floors waxed; there were iron gratings to the windows and strong bars across the fireplace; the little Homais, in spite of their spirit, could not stir without someone watching them; at the slightest cold their father stuffed them with pectorals; and until they were turned four they all, without pity, had to wear wadded head-protectors


    19. So that in all the towns about they were found wearing his long wadded merino overcoat and black frock-coat, whose buttoned cuffs slightly covered his brawny hands—very beautiful hands, and that never knew gloves, as though to be more ready to plunge into suffering


    20. I stood before her crushed, crestfallen, revoltingly confused, and I believe I smiled as I did my utmost to wrap myself in the skirts of my ragged wadded dressing-gown--exactly as I had imagined the scene not long before in a fit of depression

    21. cut out under my direction the foundation of a saddle, which I wadded and


    22. Clutched in her hand was a wadded piece of paper


    23. I toss the wadded paper into a battered trash can


    24. I wadded it up in a ball and put it at the corner of my tent


    25. When this was done, Eugenie opened a drawer, of which she kept the key, and took from it a wadded violet silk travelling cloak


    26. I rolled up the whole thing (wadded up, really) and took it out to the rover


    27. Against the other wall stood a big bed, very clean and covered with a silk patchwork wadded quilt


    28. He stripped off his damp jeans and Fruit of the Looms, wadded them up and pushed them into a bush


    29. In his overcoat pocket was a plastic bag containing the wadded jeans he’d found then


    30. He wadded it in Kleenex and flushed it down the toilet

    31. He was sitting in an office with his school tie wadded in his pocket, his packed bag already on the rug beside him


    32. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity


    33. “Ambrose Butterwell has never been what you might call decisive,” Ser Maynard said, as he wadded up three strips of silk and dropped them in the wine


    34. But as she was staring at the rumpled sheets on Ben’s bed, with the airplane pattern, and remembering him asking for new sheets—plain sheets—about a year ago, she notice a wadded plastic bag jutting out from underneath the bed frame


    35. She wadded up a handful of paper towels and soaked them, dripping the water over Guntram’s neck and shoulder until she could see skin


    36. I wadded up a paper napkin and threw it at her


    37. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many millions, being all wadded with bank-bills


    38. "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it


    39. I wadded the cable and shoved it in my pocket


    40. I handed her the wadded cablegram

    41. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's wadded cloak, which concealed his attire


    42. The woman took a mirror from a wadded handkerchief in her pocket, breathed on it, and smiled in welcome


    43. In the grate there was a glowing, blazing fire; on the hob was a little brass kettle hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a thick, warm crimson rug; before the fire a folding-chair, unfolded, and with cushions on it; by the chair a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it spread small covered dishes, a cup, a saucer, a teapot; on the bed were new warm coverings and a satin-covered down quilt; at the foot a curious wadded silk robe, a pair of quilted slippers, and some books


    44. When Becky wakened, and she sat upright staring aghast, her face still smudged with traces of tears, beside her stood a little figure in a luxurious wadded robe of crimson silk


    45. His wadded coat and cap with peak


    46. Moreover, I had on my shirt, a waistcoat of yellow silk, embroidered and wadded, which I had cut out of a woman’s petticoat, and over that again a large collar, lined with ermine


    47. "One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin 'touloup,' which was left in the hands of your lordship in the wayside house on the steppe, fifteen roubles


    48. He was very badly dressed : in an old wadded overcoat, with a little fur collar of mangy-looking raccoon ; it was too short for him and obviously second-hand


    49. Only then the young man in the wadded overcoat observed that this gentleman in the raccoon furs certainly was upset


    50. The little gentleman had, however, vanished into the darkness, leaving the gentleman in the wadded overcoat in a state of stupefaction













    1. When she takes her hand away the fabric of the plaster is already showing a small brown stain where the blood has soaked into the wadding


    2. With the smoldering wadding, he touched the corner of the crinkly vellum and it went up in flames


    3. How could he point a gun at a human being and pull the trigger with as much thought as I might give to wadding up a piece of scratch paper?


    4. “Accepted,” he said, wadding the napkin and tossing it down


    5. Bits of wadding and metal fragments had to be removed from the eyeball


    6. He covered his outburst by wadding the wrapper into a ball and shooting it towards the nearest trashcan


    7. Did a holiday-maker with a wife and, say, four children have to bring six sets of bedding with him? Six sets of Teutonic bedding, stuffed with feathers? Six pillows, six of those wedge-like things to put under pillows called _Kielkissen_, and six quilted coverlets with insides of eider-down if there was a position to keep up, and of wadding if public opinion could afford to be defied? Yet the lodging-houses were full; and that there were small children in them was evident from the frequency with which the sounds that accompany the act of correction floated out into the street


    8. Berty ignored him as he rammed the wadding and poured in a palm-full of shot


    9. Wadding up the paper, he stuffed it in the can


    10. "By holding the weapon in the light and looking down the barrel I can see the wadding that would hold a lead ball in place

    11. The powder charge and its wadding will be beneath


    12. She softened: "Get me some wadding out of the middle drawer," she said


    13. She won in a thunderstorm, Rothschild's filly, with wadding in her ears


    14. The outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers


    15. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding


    16. The markets thrive on taking the rules and ideals that govern general society, wadding them up into a ball, setting them on fire, and then shoving them down a new trader’s throat


    17. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages


    1. "Yes," I struggled with the wads of cash in my coat pocket, "it's everything we have sir


    2. Then he keyed the magic numbers into the magical money machine and watched in absolute wonder as the machine spewed out huge great wads of ten-pound notes


    3. He opened the box, removed wads of packing and looked inside


    4. wads of ten-pound notes


    5. The unending noise in Roller Alley was so bad that some Rollers deliberately deafened themselves, but he’d never had the courage to do that, preferring to stuff cotton wads in his ears instead


    6. choosing some hiding place in which he kept his wads


    7. Some muffled grumbling could be heard from inside, but they pretended not to hear what was said, as they inserted the wads of cloth at both ends


    8. inserted the wads of cloth at both ends


    9. lowered it to the ground as gently as I could, wads of his hair


    10. We became close and she was a really nice girl at first plus she past the shifty bitch test which was a process where you leave counted wads of cash in ya pocket that are all bunched up so they look like you haven"t counted them

    11. were thick wads of twenty dollar bills


    12. Shortly afterward, he pulled out $60,000 in cash, folding it into two wads and placing them in each shorts pocket


    13. It was always lying around all over the place, wads of it


    14. A quick search revealed wads of cash and a variety of drugs in the man’s pockets


    15. She and her junior colleague Toby Tyler were alone in Scully’s office and ready to head for home with their wads of notes


    16. Five of the six men in the adjacent room were sitting around a large table, counting dollar bills piled on the table before putting elastic bands around the counted wads and then stuffing the wads in a large sports bag set on top of the table


    17. ” The remaining show of money in wads of one hundred dollar bills went the way of Wolfgang Blauner


    18. We pushed wads of piastras onto him and then a few miles down the


    19. And what would he do anyway, up front behind the bullet-proof glass screen? He was not much good at Maths, so didn’t want to be involved in handing out cash to customers or counting it when local builders and other tradesmen brought in wads of dirty notes at the end of the week to be paid in


    20. BLEARGH—the beasts chucked out wads of

    21. wads of cash, which the men began to unpack and put in between the candles, in neat stacks of five


    22. wads of hard-earned cash for a few greedy baseball stars on ster-


    23. tore the pages out, littered them with graffiti, and put wads of gum between the


    24. As he lay there, feet tramped outside, livid faces appeared again at the door, and Louie felt himself struck with rocks, stabbed with sticks, and slapped with wads of spit


    25. Rick Del Rio even at his worst was never in that league, but because he worked at Private Investigations and was charged with a felony, his trial made for a sexy story that could be sold to celebrity magazines and supermarket tabs for big wads of cash


    26. in the gutters, fired out as wads for trabucos loaded with handfuls of type, blown in the wind, trampled in the mud? I have seen pages floating upon the very waters of the harbour


    27. I don't think he saw me - and took out the altar stone and put it in his bag; then he burned the wads of wool with the holy oil on them and threw the ash outside; he emptied the holy-water stoop and blew out the lamp in the sanctuary, and left the tabernacle open, and empty, as though from now on it was always to be Good Friday


    28. So she carried what she could with her, tucked into her corset, and hid small wads of bills about the house, under loose bricks on the hearth, in her scrap bag, between the pages of the Bible


    29. The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks


    30. The bathroom was as gross as the rest of the place, mucked with mold, the toilet perpetually running, wads of toilet paper smeared with lipstick dotting the floor around the trash-bin

    31. The third floor was the trading floor, where wads of folding money and small packets of powder changed hands


    32. Mickey Kevin reported this news as he chewed heavily syruped wads of toast His mouth flapped open in a rubbery, half-smiling circle


    33. The oilcloth seats were frayed and split, so that the coil spring stuck through, and wads of horsehair hung from the holes


    34. Unsuspicious of harm, while their rough cheeks were bedewed with tears in parting from their friends and country, their powder-horns empty, rods mislaid, wads too large, guns not primed—all was confusion


    35. They lopped great wads from her past, and huge excrescences from her present, and by the time that she had reached the last act, the audience sat dazed at the delicate beauty of her character


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    Synonyms for "wad"

    chaw chew cud plug quid wad batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum bundle compact pack chock up cram jam jampack ram crumple stuff trash compress crush fortune wealth

    "wad" definitions

    a small mass of soft material


    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent


    a wad of something chewable as tobacco


    compress into a wad


    crowd or pack to capacity