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Example sentences for "wadding"

Lexicographically close words:
wachis; wachsen; wad; wadded; waddies; waddle; waddled; waddling; wade; waded
  1. The lantern was brought, and sitting down on a wadding tub, I stripped.

  2. The origin of these errors is, that the transcripts of the Pontifical letters were made by strangers to our language, and the Roman edition of Wadding did not appear until sixty years after his death.

  3. Oh, let's go punch the wadding out of him--he makes me tired.

  4. Oh, let's go and punch the wadding out of him, and be done with it!

  5. To get extra weight without altering the appearance of the face, extra warp yarns, termed wadding ends, are inserted between the face weave and the filling, floating at the back of the rib.

  6. On the heavier and better grades of piqué coarse picks called wadding are used to increase the weight, and also to give more prominence to the cord effect.

  7. When these wadding ends are coarse, they give a pronounced rounded appearance to the cord.

  8. In the lightest and cheapest grades neither any wadding nor back picks are used.

  9. I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot.

  10. The cotton or wool wadding being next submitted to distillation along with water, gives up the volatile oil.

  11. They stopped in front of the Benevolent Bar and slowly read the wadding and red-stuff label.

  12. Free Drinks to all Weary Travellers', in white wadding on red calico, like Christmas decorations in church.

  13. An interlining of cotton wadding is basted in place before the lining is sewed on.

  14. Before sewing the lining on an interlining of cotton wadding should be cut out and basted in place with a few long stitches.

  15. For local application, the sore parts are thickly dusted with fine fresh flour, and covered with soft wadding or surgeon's lint.

  16. These should be carefully cleansed, dusted with boric acid, and covered with a layer of wadding bandage.

  17. But she bids ye and she prays ye baith, Gif ony prayer can dee, To Mary Kirk to cume the morn, Her weary wadding to see.

  18. T is I wul send to that wadding Ten ton of the red wyne; Much more I'll send to that wadding, An I wul follow syne.

  19. He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

  20. That was because of the noise of the guns," said Uncle Harry, "and I have got the wadding of a bullet somewhere inside me now.

  21. Buckets of chopped ice were poured in to fill up the vacant space, and before the congealed wadding was all in, my toes and fingers were completely frost-bitten.

  22. To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc.

  23. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced.

  24. Then with a padding of tissue paper or wadding and a piece of pretty material make a neat cushion, using the cut-out circle of cardboard as a foundation; stitch or glue this neatly on the under side and fix it on to the support.

  25. I asked, with a great sob rising in my throat, like wadding rammed by an untaught man.

  26. Here the net is of use to keep the whole in a mass; but you must not suppose the same would be obtained by a charge of shot, without a wadding below.

  27. At first I had too much powder and it would not work but after a few trials the wadding caught fire and with some dry sticks for kindling we soon had a fire under way and Mr. Spencer had his bonfire on the hill that night.

  28. The opal flashed black and shining between the rags and wadding as Potch put it on the table.

  29. Slowly, abstractedly, he rolled the newspaper wrappings from the tin; and the stones rattled together in their bed of wadding as he lifted them to the table.

  30. Michael took a piece of soiled wadding from a drawer in the table, rolled the stones in it, and fitted them into the box.

  31. Potch's clumsy fingers fumbled with the wrappings; he spread the wadding on the table.

  32. This wire frame must be covered, first with wadding or tow, as shown in fig.

  33. They are sewn together with coir yarn (or cocoa-nut husk fibre), the stitches crossing over a wadding of coir or straw, which presses on the seam and prevents much leakage.

  34. A bell-metal or iron spherical bullet mould must be selected with the greatest care, as it by no means follows that because the figure 12 or 11 is stamped on it, that, like a wadding punch, it is calculated for a gun of the same gauge.

  35. It consists of cotton wadding containing a layer of very thin zinc plates, and another layer of copper ones.

  36. In the seventeenth century Vicente Mut vouches for the fact, and says he has some of them, while Wadding tells us that in his time they were carried to Rome, where they excited much wonder.

  37. Wadding (VI, 48) says [thorn]at Duns Scotus was made S.

  38. The first according to Wadding (XIV, 252) was Greenwich, A.

  39. Compare [thorn]e letter of Innocent VI to Roger de Conway in Wadding Annales, vol.

  40. It is about twelve feet in length; and a quiver containing a dozen little pieces of very hard wood, sharp at one end, and fitted with a bit of cotton-wadding at the other.

  41. They were shot with little darts of hard wood pointed at one end, and twisted round with wadding at the other to prevent the wind escaping.

  42. When a gun is discharged near the body, a portion of the wadding is almost always found in the irregular wound produced.

  43. Thus a gun loaded with wadding or gunpowder only may cause death.

  44. An expert was called upon to say whether they were powder-marks, and whether the condition of the paper was such that in his opinion it was wadding which had been fired from a gun.

  45. Sweet has experimented with pistols loaded with gunpowder and wadding in order to determine the effect of their discharge at different distances.

  46. Many fatal accidents have taken place by the discharge of wadding from cannon.

  47. When a person has died of a gunshot wound, especially at close range, it is important to look for any wadding or paper found in the wound, as in a number of instances the finding of such has led to the detection of the criminal.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wadding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bush; bushing; doubling; facing; filler; filling; gasket; gland; inlay; liner; lining; packing; padding; stuffing; tampon; wadding; wainscot