putter
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“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
They putter along in the halls and corridors, and leave a sad trail of tear-shaped glitter and the noise of tiny wailing cries.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
So it makes sense that, despite all their girth and grunting, shot putters tend to be science geeks.
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
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
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
Some major drivers of higher prices, such as rents, energy, and used cars, have puttered out or started to reverse, causing sharp drops in overall inflation.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
But now he puttered around the creek in his broken-down motorboat.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 1, 2010
He just puttered around the store with a silly little grin on his face.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Shahed drones have been dubbed "flying mopeds" by Ukrainians because of their puttering engines.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
On Saturday, an Oakland resident who lives a few miles from the zoo saw one of the crows, Deauville, puttering around the front porch.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
They’ve seen him at the ice cream parlor grabbing soft-serve, taking strolls or puttering in a golf cart with his wife down the main drag, grabbing a bite at the café.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
“He was always puttering with things, taking them apart, putting them back together. When he was around nothing ever broke. Nothing ever dared to break.”
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
