Some students pad out their essays by adding a whole lot of quotes from random sources.

Have you heard about girls padding out their bras to make their breasts look bigger?

With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition.

Because of my job I usually pad out just before nine o'clock.

My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.

Pad out

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