balled-up

• “Or, failing that, any safer than say, shoving balled-up socks, some hard-wearing wash balls or a pair of clean hand warmers, for a decade or so, inside the body of a formerly healthy woman who has been warned in the small print that the surgical use of these objects is still at the trial stage.”

  The Guardian: Thanks, Joan Rivers, you're an object lesson to us all | Catherine Bennett

• “A second fruit split open, spilling another balled-up creature onto the terrace.”

  Simon & Schuster: End of Time

• “She was sorting through a pile of balled-up sweaters, crumpled socks, and tangled necklaces, her fingers shaking slightly.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ominous

• “He bursts in with balled-up fists pressed against his eyes and starts crying about how he can't take it and he doesn't know what to tell his parents.”

  The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale: Part One Recap

• “Sometimes, as on the driving "Serpents," an atmospheric swirl of instrumentation builds to a catharsis, like a balled-up fist landing an overdue punch.”

  The Wall Street Journal: She's Gonna Make It After All

• “Vinnie dug in his front pocket and tossed me a balled-up five-dollar bill.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mercy Kill

• “But her banter is almost as enjoyable as her singing, and it makes just as fine a delivery system for Jackson's inimitable attitude, which pairs a seductive smile with a balled-up fist.”

  The Washington Post: In concert: Wanda Jackson at 9:30 Club

• “With unexpected energy, he kicked at me, then punched me with balled-up fists.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “She can tell you, now, that decay smells of balled-up socks and that between the lines is an afterthought.”

  Fictionaut: WHEN YOUR HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THE HEART OF THE OCEAN IS NOT IN YOUR POCKET

• “One day, Phil Butz awoke from unsettling dreams: visions of wandering among the dust and fuzz and balled-up pubic hair that sticks under the lunatic fringe, alone and insane, in search of a magic formula.”

  Fictionaut: Dr. Norm O. Pathy, M.D.

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