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
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
Right before lunch I go to the boys’ room at school and mush the putty through my hair until it stands on end all over my head.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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
For we had our faithful ice-axes, and our lower limbs were swathed with putties, now almost universally worn by guides and climbers alike.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
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
His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men.
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
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
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
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
