41 examples of puttering in sentences

Why, the days wouldn't be long enough to putter in.

I used to think maybe you'd get to putter out there in the side-yard with it, trailin' vines; the china-paintin' outfit I had sent down from Cincinnati when I seen it advertised in the Up-State Gazette; a spaniel or two from Old Cocker's new litter, barkin' around; all them things, I used to think, would give our little place here a feelin' that would change both of us for the better.

She hath an awkward trick (to say no worse of it) of reading in company: at which times she will answer yes or no to a question, without fully understanding its purportwhich is provoking, and derogatory in the highest degree to the dignity of the putter of the said question.

The old Doc. uster putter around considerable.

We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.

I do a little farming and a good deal of puttering about.

I never was no hand to putter with garden sass.

I do not know the comparative advantages of the two forms, but no doubt each bird swears by its own pattern, as every golfer does by his own putter.

Putter around, take some cutie coasting.

He says a fellow can play just as well with a driver and a putter and a niblick as he can with a dozen clubs.

The green was level and clean, and West selected a small iron putter, and addressed the ball with all the attention to form that the oldest St. Andrews veteran might desire.

Whipple holed out on his next try, adopting a wooden putter this time, and the score stood fifteen strokes each.

But West gripped his wooden putter firmly and studied the situation.

Gripping his iron putter firmly rather low on the shaft and bending far over, West slowly, cautiously swung the club above the gutty, glancing once and only once as he did so at the distant goal.

After much puttering, he reached the goal of his ambition, and got the deadly Full-Nelson on Jumbo's head, and forced it slowly and irresistibly down.

"I only got orders to do a little puttering.

One of those things he used to be always puttering overyou may remember, Clara, mentioning, from time to time, those things he used to be puttering around withhas been adopted with a whoop.

One of those things he used to be always puttering overyou may remember, Clara, mentioning, from time to time, those things he used to be puttering around withhas been adopted with a whoop.

Towards eight o'clock I seemed to hear your voice, "TeriiteraRuihere is the hour for putter and tiro (cheese and syrup)."

He was to drive with an iron, not far, but truly; to stay always in the centre of the fairway and especially to cultivate the shorter approach shots and the use of the putter.

We regret to be obliged to state that there are some so utterly out of sympathy with the cause of art, as to assert that the greater portion of Bill's utensils are useless; and that by much puttering he loses time without improving his work.

Waco, despite his many shortcomings, could cook, and, strangely enough, liked to putter round the garden.

I say, as an old sea-captain once said, when it was proposed to take a man-o'-war with a whale-boat, 'I guess it will be a puttering job.'

He could never quite make up his mind whether he putted best with a gun-metal putter or a wooden one.

Henceforward, then, Golf is the game for the fair At home, and abroad, or in pastures Colonial, And the shouts of the ladies will quite fill the air For the Links that will turn into bonds Matrimonial, And for husbands our daughters in future will seek With the powerful aid of the putter and cleek!

41 examples of  puttering  in sentences