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His desk is covered with fidget toys: slinkies, small squishies, silly putty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

But after so many years in the business, Griffin understands how to maneuver her audience and keep them molded in her hands like putty.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2024

One second stretched like putty into hours, and Seven was shaking with fear and anticipation.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

She was comely enough in her spiral putties and her tanned boots as she sat, her small round chin on the hand whose arm was supported by a knee.

From Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Emerson Hough

She is conscious of the rottenness of putting on a khaki tunic, and winding khaki putties round and round her legs to hang about the Hospital doing nothing.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

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

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

She is engaged in puttying up the one gaping joint in their armour.

From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

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

The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking the other way when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain