Get to know Puttering better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning.
Puttering meaning
present participle and gerund of putter
Using Puttering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of putter
- In the example corpus, puttering often appears in combinations such as: puttering around.
Context around Puttering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puttering
- In this selection, "puttering" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, others, husband, perfect, drones, outside and acceleration stand out and add context to how "puttering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include her husband puttering around their and hybrid s puttering acceleration and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puttering" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puttering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No puttering drones were being shot out of the sky during this attack. (13 words)
By 2011, Deb would find her husband puttering around their backyard in Weatherford, taping up empty cardboard boxes. (18 words)
He was not used to leisure time and he certainly wasn’t used to puttering around a garden or doing home repairs. (22 words)
It's perfect puttering-around music that you can actually work to, and includes an unexplained audio skit (on "B'nD," which is short for "Bostyn 'n Dobsyn") that I inexplicably love. (32 words)
Just like at any soccer practice on any field, there are some kids running their hearts out, others puttering along at their own pace. (24 words)
We give the family of Ioniq hatchbacks a 4 for performance, based on the Hybrid’s puttering acceleration and average ride and handling. (23 words)
Example sentences (7)
No puttering drones were being shot out of the sky during this attack.
He was not used to leisure time and he certainly wasn’t used to puttering around a garden or doing home repairs.
If he wasn’t puttering outside painting everything forest green you would find him watching an old western and doing jigsaw puzzles.
Just like at any soccer practice on any field, there are some kids running their hearts out, others puttering along at their own pace.
We give the family of Ioniq hatchbacks a 4 for performance, based on the Hybrid’s puttering acceleration and average ride and handling.
By 2011, Deb would find her husband puttering around their backyard in Weatherford, taping up empty cardboard boxes.
It's perfect puttering-around music that you can actually work to, and includes an unexplained audio skit (on "B'nD," which is short for "Bostyn 'n Dobsyn") that I inexplicably love.
Common combinations with puttering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: