putty

They also found sunglasses, balaclavas, can of sealing putty and an Irish flag.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But such a war would be putty in the hands of international judges if they were to adopt a vaguer standard that allows genocidal intent to be inferred “holistically” from “facts and circumstances.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

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

There was no putty concealing his long, sloping Ashton nose, nor was there a handkerchief tied ’round his face.

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

At a signal they started to collect driftwood and build it into rafts, tying the logs together with their puggris and putties.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Medical opinion inclines to the view that most of these are a new disease known as trench foot, caused by standing in the trenches with putties too tight and boots too small.

From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William Edward Sellers

The putties were immaculately entwined around his legs—in short the tout ensemble was decidedly smart and soldier-like.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross

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

Most of the time, his face is serious, soft, and his features are slightly edematous, particularly his nose, which looks as if it has been puttied in place.

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

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 Mark Twain

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 C. W. Whall

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

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

Well," 'e ses, "get it slobbered over as quick as you can," 'e ses, "'cos we ain't got much for this job: don't spend a lot of time puttying up.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

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 Sears Gallagher