You accumulate great wads of paper.

Marie-Louise preferred licorice and chocolates, but Axelle loved to blow enormous bubbles with great wads of pink goo.

Every afternoon, much of Yemen simply shuts down as men gather together to chew great wads of qat and convivially discuss events.

There was lots of everything at my wedding feast - great glistening hunks of meat, great wads of fragrant bread, great flagons of mellow wine.

There was a deafening uproar, hats were tossed ceilingward, and great wads of money were passed out by the "trusted cashier" to indifferent millionaires.

And in the hospital beds-greatwads of bandage and wide, staring, unbelieving eyes and utter weariness-thelittle targets, the seven-year-old military objectives.