Example Sentences

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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