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

And as Rai’s putter heated up, including with a 68-footer for birdie on No. 17, he built a three-stroke margin of victory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Driver, putter and ball are usually the most crucial elements, so the move is not as drastic as it might appear.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

Ever since her own parents died, these visits from her mother-in-law had taken on extra importance, and she’d putter around the house, cleaning and cooking, biting her nails as she went.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

Before the finals, the shot putters emerged from a tunnel, one by one, pausing in front of a television camera.

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 said she keeps it in a rifle case because putters can bend during travel.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 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

The previous record was set 90 years ago — only about three decades after the first cars puttered through Yosemite Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Things puttered along until Elfster’s big break, which came in 2009: Claire’s hired the company for a Secret Santa campaign.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022

Milligan, disguised as a gray-haired gardener in a straw hat, puttered gloomily about the iron fence, tending to the rose bushes.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Bean catalog: Stare meaningfully at the the swelling sea, the ferries and barges puttering past, the birds that perch on West Brother, the next island over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Meanwhile, he was watching television, puttering around the house, enjoying the cool night.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers