Sentence examples for has padded the from inspiring English sources

Mahon, a graduate of Anderson & Sheppard who has padded the shoulders of Prince Charles, Bryan Ferry and Graydon Carter, offers the following pointers.

The board's staff has been reduced to 281 from 305 since 2006, but Mr. Cardinale contended that the agency has "padded the payroll with patronage employees earning $1 million in annual salaries".

At best, your mom has padded the pockets of a conman (or woman).

Indeed, Orm was humble about his oeuvre: he admits in the preface that he frequently has padded the lines to fill out the meter, "to help those who read it", and urges his brother Walter to edit the poetry to make it more meet (Treharne 2000, pp. 274 75).

So the Communists may have padded the result.

The Times found that the group had padded the résumé of its chief executive, Jack Brown III, falsely claiming that he was a gulf war combat veteran.

And while voters in the physical world may have padded the Democrats' majority in the Senate, diminished the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and re-elected a Democratic president, trends connected to Democrats and liberals were not ascendant on Twitter.

According to the audit, the center's youth program director may have padded the time sheets for himself, his daughter, his live-in companion and her son, who were hired in violation of rules against nepotism.

So, people have fallen through a trap door, but somehow are at fault for not having padded the ground below well enough.

False leads superfluously string the protagonist along; it feels as though the writers have padded the script rather than showed off their cleverness.

Instead, troops have padded the coffers of the Education Department, which the Congressional Budget Office projects will generate tens of billions of dollars in profit off federal student loan borrowers over the next decade.