putter

“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

He was beaten by McIlroy in a play-off last year, but put himself in position to avenge that defeat as McIlroy's stone-cold putter loosened his grip on the tournament.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Some of L Catterton’s other recent deals involved the Pilates chain Solidcore and the golf putter company L.A.B.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

I think I’m just a serial putterer, in that I putter around and I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

At the fireplace, Jean Louise had picked up a blackened old wooden-shaft putter which had done years of doubleduty as a poker.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

The occasion often feels tacked-on amid the barbecues and the shiny putters trotted out like obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Within 12 months, Scheffler had risen into the top 15 putters and completed a remarkable season, winning seven PGA Tour events, including a second Masters, and an Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

So it makes sense that, despite all their girth and grunting, shot putters tend to be science geeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024

Kim, one of the best putters on tour, played bogey-free and had four birdies on the back nine.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

As the rickshaw putters along the road, darting through traffic, I drag to my lips the question that's been stuck in my heart for so long.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

After grabbing items for dinner at a Trader Joe’s, I puttered home along a main drag with a 35 mph limit, fully pressing the pedal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

A group of women in floral dresses puttered out to meet the Warrior on a bum-bum, an inboard motorboat.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

In fact, I was gulping some of the Sailing Goat’s excellent clam chowder when my innkeepers’ 22-foot boat puttered up to the dock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

In the hours after Pong leaped from the cliff at Nok's feet, he had clung to the cargo barge as it puttered slowly upriver, making stop after stop at every tiny village dock.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

During communist days, chronic shortages and years-long waiting lists for cars like the puttering Trabant meant that mopeds and motorcycles became an indispensable way to get around.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Shahed drones have been dubbed "flying mopeds" by Ukrainians because of their puttering engines.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

Drawing them out of the woods often required an audible stimulus comparable to the males’ drumming — the puttering of an all-terrain vehicle engine, for example.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

At the corner the old man, wrapped in an army overcoat, his feet covered with gunny sacks, his head in a knitted cap, was puttering with a stack of paper bags.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison