He tightened like he had a balled-up fist on the inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE EXORSISTAH] Reference

Out of the bag, he pulled balled-up black tuxedo trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [1st to Die]

I stretched out with my head against my balled-up sweatshirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Experiment]

Justin hurled a shoe, then another, then his balled-up underwear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

Maya threw a balled-up napkin at Andy, who cackled evilly in response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stupid Cupid] Reference

She whirled around and plucked one of the balled-up pages from the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at the Feast] Reference

It took several tries to get it to pick a balled-up sock off the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheap, Chintzy Robots: Part Two] Reference

Gets up, slams her balled-up napkin into the garbage can, and walks out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Jade] Reference

That pretty much happened when you introduced balled-up rag in the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Trouble] Reference

She peeked out behind balled-up fists every once in a while to study Myron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drop Shot]

Next came his balled-up fist; the hole expanded wide to keep from cutting him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspicion]

"Nope," she said, tossing one of the balled-up wrappers toward the floor lamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only You]

He claimed the balled-up note from Harvey's hand and said: "Maybe I'll do that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thief of Always]

Trying to reassure the woman, Adrienne squeezed the young mother's balled-up fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dillon's Reckoning]

The balled-up sock was crouched a yard past the Fifty-first Street end of the grate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinny Legs and All]

She had affixed a stamp to a postcard and now brought her balled-up fist down on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

As he turned around to protest, Bosch hit him in the chest with the balled-up jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]

He placed his elbows on the edge of the table and held his chin in his balled-up fist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love So Deep] Reference

This is sad, because balled-up floor socks are the main thing I need picked up in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheap, Chintzy Robots: Part Two] Reference

It looked like a balled-up rust brown sweater that had been thrown from a top floor window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cold-Blooded Murder] Reference

But no, he was perched among the balled-up covers, ears perked and wide-eyed from the noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

I don't have to tote a balled-up fist of toilet paper and tampon around the bathroom anymore!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neat Thing That Happened While I Was Gone] Reference

When he was small, I used to have a great time with my cousin and a balled-up piece of paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [And a bit more on real manhood] Reference

She shook her balled-up hands by her sides and squealed as if this were earth-shattering news.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape-Shifter’s Curse] Reference

Later that evening, he found his father's letter, a balled-up wad of paper, in the wastebasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

But instead of putting in the little plastic baby, they can put in a balled-up Cabbage Patch Kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Rude to Stare] Reference

"There we go," he said, tossing the balled-up sheets onto the floor and looking across the bed at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sully's Kids]

"That, and this, " Chin said, producing a balled-up piece of paper that he picked up with latex gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [3rd Degree]

Martin took the balled-up socks from her, shoving them down the side of the sofa and took her hands in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

The area around my desk looked like a do-it-yourself snowfall, as it was knee-deep in balled-up typing paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

Instruct the children to place glue dots along one line of a firework, and to place the balled-up tissue on the glue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth] Reference

He reached in his jacket pocket and took out a balled-up navy blue knitted cap, pulling it over his reddish-blond hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Viognier Vendetta] Reference

As Conklin smacked the back of Bergin's head, the balled-up, bloody napkin went flying, landing softly behind his chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 5th Horseman]

They know to put their clothes in the laundry basket; not to put balled-up socks in the washer and to empty their pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [My dirty laundry @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy] Reference

Firing balled-up paper into wastebasket "hoops" from three-point range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

Re-purposing isn't all about balled-up tinfoil and grimacing, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifehacker] Reference