putty
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The new line comprises a series of modeling compound kits that guide users through the process of turning putty into floral arrangements designed to be displayed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The business of the North American Toy Fair, an annual showcase of the latest in silly putty, monster trucks and board games, is fun.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
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
But after so many years in the business, Griffin understands how to maneuver her audience and keep them molded in her hands like putty.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2024
The next day, they went to a hardware store and bought putty knives and steel spatulas, and the decon team went to work chipping the walls and floor.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
Harold spent the next day buying a war correspondent's outfit: the camel, the travelling bath, the putties, the pith helmet, the quinine, the sleeping-bag, and the thousand-and-one other necessities of active service.
From Happy Days by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Many of us wore putties, and the men all did, but I don't like them myself as they are too hot in hot weather and make one's legs sore in cold.
From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne
I could wish that she did not wrap her putties, one from the inside out, and the other from the outside in.
From Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Emerson Hough
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
Affix the braces just after filling, using brads and puttying the holes with putty colored to match the filler.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
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
"I wouldn't like to undertake the puttying up that would deceive you."
From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green
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
