Example Sentences
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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
A tall man in khaki and putties stood on the top of the bank looking at them, a revolver in the holster strapped at his side.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John
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 Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)
After entering Szechuan I was usually accompanied by quite real soldiers, men of the new service, fairly shipshape in khaki and putties and carrying up-to-date guns.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball
