putty
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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
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
Zeitoun is fixing the woodwork with caulk and putty, repainting the interiors with medium grey and sage-green and bone-white.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
His putties were put on beautifully: not a false fold or a bad line anywhere.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
It cut right through my putties, three folds of them.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
I dare say he could get whatever you want, and I should advise you to buy a suit of khaki and a pair of putties.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
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
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
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
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
"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
