- present participle of put.
putting
Example Sentences
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Putting my first special out has been so liberating because as a comedian, we can toil and toil forever, moving punchlines around, moving premises around, and new current events can influence your content.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Putting has often been her weak link, but she gained more than three shots on the greens compared with the rest of the field and topped the statistical charts for scrambling.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Related: Putting your baby to work as a model could net them $5.7 million by age 60.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Putting up all those new data centers requires plenty of what builders call aggregate, and what the rest of us call rocks that have been broken into smaller rocks.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Putting my traps in the gunny sack, I said, “You will, Grandpa, and one of them will be that hundred dollar monkey. He’s the jasper I want to catch.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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