putter
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“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
They allow gimmes if the putt is within the shaft of your putter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
He said the past two weeks had boosted his confidence in his putter, and it certainly showed as he needed just 22 putts, gaining more than five strokes on the field on the greens.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 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
If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvetsoft, diamond-gem beauty parlor!
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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
He focused on altering the conventional starting point, which has shot putters standing at the back of the ring, facing away from the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Chips from tight links turf required absolute precision, often putters were the correct option.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
She switched putters this week and it clicked in the second round.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
A sunset-orange post-balloon putters into the main salon, glowing bright with the Fire Teahouse emblem.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
The all-terrain vehicle puttered down a winding dirt road shaded by mature Douglas fir and cedar, with sword ferns and vine maple brushing the sides of the cart along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
As her own black Lab puttered around behind her, Sally Ange Cowdin, 59, said the Dixie Fire was the third time she had evacuated because of a natural disaster.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
Dad had a contract to build a milking barn in Oneida County, about twenty miles from Buck’s Peak, so Shawn puttered around the yard, adjusting schematics and measuring I-beams.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
I guess a photo of her puttering around the garden or waving from a window might make some people feel better, but why on earth should she be expected to do that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
When the puttering motor was cut, it was suddenly quiet, just the wind in my face and the sparkling archipelago all around.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
He imagines her puttering around the apartment, drawing a bath, pouring herself a glass of wine, her bags in the hallway.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
