1.   Although the unit can get fairly warm, my tests confirm that it is not much good as a heating pad, barbecue smoker or popcorn popper.

2.   Between shifts, while sitting on the bench, Gretzky took his helmet off and applied a heating pad.

3.   Both cameras and sound equipment required heating pads to keep them from freezing.

4.   A tired Martin, wearing heating pads on both of his knees and in a subdued mood, was in contrast to the more playful Safin.

5.   Brian Shaw sits on a heating pad as though he were a pot of soup simmering on the stove, the better to let his hamstrings warm up.

6.   He did not think twice about how Ewing spent his idle moments on the bench Sunday wrapped in a heating pad for his tight back.

7.   His right shoulder, slung with a heating pad, is throbbing.

8.   Pass the heating pad, please.

9.   She put him on the couch with a heating pad on his sore right thigh.