[
US
/ˈwɑd/
]
[ UK /wˈɒd/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒd/ ]
VERB
-
crowd or pack to capacity
the theater was jampacked -
compress into a wad
wad paper into the box
NOUN
-
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market -
a small mass of soft material
he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter - a wad of something chewable as tobacco
How To Use wad In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
- She tended to sleep lightly nowadays .
- Winky luved tu drinking frum deh water fawsitt…. she liking hur wadder fresh…it wuz a sinky-drinky fur deh winky-binky. Like the new bowl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
- My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner. Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
- I kept folding up the wads of twenties and stuffing them in the pocket of my shorts.
- They waded the river at a shallow point.
- The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
