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Synonyms: Noun
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wealth, yard
Synonyms: Verb
agglomerate, ball, roll, round
Antonyms: Noun
ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of wad in a Sentence
Noun
He spent a wad on clothes. a starlet who usually gets a big wad of publicity for her nonstop anticsVerb
disgusted, she wadded up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
McNair isn’t holding a wad of cash earmarked for Bush. — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, "As the NCAA readies its case, Arizona should brace for the worst (just ask USC)," 13 June 2019 Their families had scraped together wads of cash for traffickers who had promised their sons jobs at a luxury hotel in Amman. — Ellen Barry, New York Times, "Terrorists Killed 12 Nepalese Men. Was an American Military Contractor to Blame?," 15 June 2018 If your pet acquires a taste for trees (either real or fake), enough needles can form a wad in the GI tract and cause an obstruction. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "5 Holiday Plants That Are Way More Toxic Than Poinsettias to Cats and Dogs," 14 Dec. 2018 One such ad depicts Kim Schrier, a Democrat running in Washington's 8th District, with a wad of $20 bills fanned out in her hands. — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, "Republicans attack Jewish candidates, including Kim Schrier, with an age-old caricature: fistfuls of cash," 6 Nov. 2018 Baseball players have shoved sticky pink wads into their mouths for time immemorial, particularly as a way to replace—or cover up—their nasty tobacco habits. — Jared Diamond, WSJ, "Eugenio Suarez Can Run, Hit, Throw and Chew Gum at the Same Time," 2 Aug. 2018 According to The Daily Mirror, Bielsa will now be handed a significant wad of cash in order to convert the former Champions League semi-finalists back into genuine promotion contenders. — SI.com, "New Leeds Boss Marcelo Bielsa Set for Huge £20m Transfer Budget in Attempt to Secure Promotion Push," 16 June 2018 After searching the vehicle, the task force found 160 bags of heroin, over 15 grams of crack cocaine and a wad of cash. — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, "Manchester Police Arrest Men In Drug Bust; One With History Of Similar Arrests," 13 June 2018 Thug, on the other hand, wears a simple yellow hoodie offset with layers of lustrous pearls and a wad of cash sticking out of his silver purse. — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, "Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert Show Off Their Pearls and Chanel Bags—With Rosé in Hand, of Course," 14 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wad.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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