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Meanings of wads in inglés

portugués
montão
catalán
feix
español
multitud

A large number or amount.

multitud
Usage of wads in inglés
1
He has been known to hand wads of money to homeless people.
The Guardian
2
Blanket weed spreads quickly to form thick wads of green floating filaments.
The Irish Times
3
He swapped tobacco wads from one cheek to the other and continued:
The Way of the Wind
4
Will bankers also soon be clamoring for wads of the high-value bill?
Reuters
5
Will bankers also soon be clamouring for wads of the high-value bill?
Reuters
6
And rivers of snot I keep honking into wads of pink tissue.
Lit: a memoir
7
Money flows freely as people go around holding huge wads of notes.
Reuters
8
He would cough constantly, sometimes bringing up big black wads of phlegm.
Mutated
9
Big phlegmy wads of it darkened the dirty bed of the truck.
Mutated
10
Far ahead you could see woods, like little wads of dull green paper.
Pinball, 1973
11
Not surprisingly, many of the world's top wads make the journey each year.
Climbing Magazine
12
She glanced at him, then pulled out the wads of paper.
Arcanum Unbounded
13
The leaves sounded like wads of paper crinkling and crunching under my shoes.
After midnight
14
I know: I will provide you with little wads of cotton-wool.
Queen Lucia
15
It unbuckles our tight-wads and gives our ingenious young loafers something to do.
Homeburg Memories
16
The teachers had forbidden me to throw paper wads, or spitballs.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
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portugués
montão
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United States of America
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