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wadding example sentences
wadding
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
