How do you use Putty in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cement or filler, plus the exact meaning.
Putty in a sentence
Putty meaning
- A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
- Any of a range of similar substances.
- An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
Using Putty
- The main meaning on this page is: A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass. | Any of a range of similar substances. | An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
- Useful related words include: cement, filler, put on, apply.
- In the example corpus, putty often appears in combinations such as: silly putty, putty is, putty and.
Context around Putty
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Putty
- In this selection, "putty" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, silly, adhesive, mounting, allowing, shown and egg stand out and add context to how "putty" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a malleable putty allowing him and and mounting putty. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "putty" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with putty
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I’m the journalism version of Silly Putty. (8 words)
You can use silly putty to slow enemies. (8 words)
Her attorney tried breathing exercises, stress putty, a toy. (9 words)
No longer was the Blob simply able to take any hit thrown at him, but he learned how to actually turn his body into a malleable putty, allowing him to stretch, shapeshift, and even engulf his enemies with his raw flesh alone. (42 words)
Newer papers with soy-based inks are more resistant to this activity. citation Silly Putty shown as a solid cube Generally, Silly Putty is difficult to remove from textured items such as hair and clothing. (35 words)
He claims that his chomping of this pricey nicotine-infused putty has saved him from a certain death from the lung cancer that sadly claimed his father in his 60s. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Newer papers with soy-based inks are more resistant to this activity. citation Silly Putty shown as a solid cube Generally, Silly Putty is difficult to remove from textured items such as hair and clothing.
Silly Putty egg Silly Putty is sold as a convert piece of clay inside an egg-shaped plastic container.
Versions of the product are also sold under the generic names "adhesive putty" and "mounting putty".
He claims that his chomping of this pricey nicotine-infused putty has saved him from a certain death from the lung cancer that sadly claimed his father in his 60s.
No longer was the Blob simply able to take any hit thrown at him, but he learned how to actually turn his body into a malleable putty, allowing him to stretch, shapeshift, and even engulf his enemies with his raw flesh alone.
Emergency services rushed to the crash which happened about 9am on Saturday along Putty Road at Colo Heights.
I’m the journalism version of Silly Putty.
The grand opening event will be held on Saturday, November 9, with the Mayor of Basingstoke, Cllr Dan Putty, due to be in attendance.
This set includes six different resistance levels of putty, allowing you to perform various exercises like squeezing, pinching, stretching, and rolling.
Today, Silly Putty is recognized the world over, quite literally, since Apollo 8 astronauts used it to secure tools while in outer space.
Using white foam putty and other supplies from a DIY “Let’s Build a Snowman” kit, the students expressed their creativity and built their snowmen.
With amala on the side, made from cassava flour, grey, with the texture of putty.
SSH can be performed from a Windows (using a client like PuTTY), Mac, or Linux computer.
To transform his nose, Chaney applied putty to sharpen its angle and inserted two loops of wire into his nostrils.
Truth had already been reduced to Silly Putty, to be moulded as one wishes.
You can use silly putty to slow enemies.
Her attorney tried breathing exercises, stress putty, a toy.
Simply mash the putty into a face shape, assemble and watch it melt.
This Nov. 11, 2018 photo shows the first step in the Kintsugi process where a chip is filled in with epoxy putty at the Kuge Crafts workshop in Tokyo.
Those gray slabs of face-putty are just awful.
Common combinations with putty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- silly putty 13×
- putty is 5×
- putty and 4×
- putty to 3×
- putty in 3×
- mounting putty 2×
- putty allowing 2×
- the putty 2×
- putty road 2×
- of putty 2×