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putty

[puht-ee] / ˈpʌt i /




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The new line comprises a series of modeling compound kits that guide users through the process of turning putty into floral arrangements designed to be displayed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

With a few tubes of paint, brushes and putty knives you might find at your local hardware store, fearless creation is something anybody can do.

From Salon May 2, 2026

The business of the North American Toy Fair, an annual showcase of the latest in silly putty, monster trucks and board games, is fun.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2025

Tucked inside Aardman’s putty preoccupations is a potent philosophical statement about the irreplaceable quality of the human touch.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

Flat, like a slab of putty, or...Oh no.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Dubuffet has rushed from mixed pastes and putties to butterfly-wing collages to painting with knives and forks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lina wrapped her legs in putties to prevent varicose veins.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He had on a tall blue turban, dark blue tunic with leathern belt, loose knickerbockers, and putties.

From India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

The putties were immaculately entwined around his legs—in short the tout ensemble was decidedly smart and soldier-like.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross

That wound he at once bound up with one of his putties, but for two hours was unable to stir from the place where he fell.

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

Q: We want to replace or reglaze our 1966 Colonial's three bow windows, which have single-pane glass puttied into wooden frames.

From Washington Post Dec. 4, 2020

In an early scene in the film, his hair puttied upward, he apologizes for a glitch in his stream.

From The New Yorker Aug. 27, 2019

Film historians have puttied the gaps in “Battle” with explanatory title cards, but these could never replicate Laurel’s look of thought-free innocence, Hardy’s frown of eternal exasperation.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2015

Most of the time, his face is serious, soft, and his features are slightly edematous, particularly his nose, which looks as if it has been puttied in place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two tiny windows were created out of bits of glass that had been puttied together.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

Affix the braces just after filling, using brads and puttying the holes with putty colored to match the filler.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

"I wouldn't like to undertake the puttying up that would deceive you."

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

So here and there she went, hammering, and screwing, and puttying, and painting, finding an outlet for much latent energy, and a use for her long repressed, although long suspected mechanical ability.

From Cicely and Other Stories by Sears Gallagher

Well," 'e ses, "get it slobbered over as quick as you can," 'e ses, "'cos we ain't got much for this job: don't spend a lot of time puttying up.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Unless this last practice is adopted throughout, the ordinary process of cementing must be omitted and careful puttying substituted for it.

From Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass by C. W. Whall




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