putty

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

The stocky build had dwindled to slimness, the thick silver hair tinted black, and the distinctive Ashton nose altered with putty, but those dark and penetrating eyes would be impossible to mistake.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

It was bitterly cold outside the tents, and his hands trembled as he fumbled with his putties.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

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 Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

A tall man in khaki and putties stood on the top of the bank looking at them, a revolver in the holster strapped at his side.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John

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

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 Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

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 Gallagher, Sears

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 Whall, C. W.

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

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

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 Twain, Mark