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
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
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
“Should I have a putty knife?” she said.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
As he fumbled with his putties the rumble of waggons came out of darkness from a road hard by, mingled with the sharper rattle that tells of the gunners already on the move.
From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George
Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were imbedded in a serpentine cast of clay.
From Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
You cannot escape seeing Paw and Maw, and Cynthy in her pants, and Hattie and Roweny in overalls and putties.
From Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Hough, Emerson
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
His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men.
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
"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 Green, Anna Katharine
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 Tressell, Robert
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 Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
She is engaged in puttying up the one gaping joint in their armour.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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 Whall, C. W.
