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Discover LudwigThe phrase "pad it out" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when referring to adding extra content to something, often to make it longer or more substantial. Example: "To meet the word count requirement, I had to pad it out with additional examples and explanations."
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"Now he's got to, you know, pad it out.
"To pad it out a bit?" George said.
Plus we had to pad it out: the show was only about 40 minutes.
It is as though the designers created a short game and used a cookie-cutter approach to pad it out.
One suspects that the designers realized that Stupid Invaders was too short and wanted to pad it out.
For a stuffed creature, fill your sock with cotton wool to pad it out then tie the loose end with the string or wool.
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But seriously, they were padding it out by the 10th episode.
But this is a great idea for a sketch, not a feature, and if Heckerling had resisted padding it out, it might have made a brilliant short.
They have padded it out with long passages from symphonic scores by Bizet, Rossini and other masters, most of it scored for violin.
In the meantime, shoving some death and destruction into a kids' film is simply the laziest, least imaginative way of padding it out.
His statement was quite lengthy, but he was padding it out with plenty of general comments about what is happening in the region.
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