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Example sentences for: padding

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In fact, the sloping shoulder was the noticeable feature of the new clothes of the Dior era, coming as it did immediately in the wake of the Joan Crawford/Rosalind Russell period and its vigorous shoulder padding.
The article particularly criticizes police departments that take credit for falling crime rates while padding their budgets by fueling unwarranted paranoia.
The words man, well hard, wicked , and swear-words are not simply idle padding for a sentence, they are an intrinsic part of the language.
Obviously, outlet guards and rubber padding for low furniture (the "Coffee Tables of Death," with which most parents are familiar) are necessary, but the Wall of Death preys on parental fear.
Victorian fashion, for example, wholly redeemed, is often treated with great respect in movies such as The Portrait of a Lady . The high hair and big bustles have been assimilated to all the other harmless customs of antiquity; they've become the equivalent of Egyptian breastplates and Elizabethan padding.