As he pottered about with the bread and cheese and salmon, a smile widened his round face.
It did not occur to either of them, as Uncle William pottered about, finishing the dishes, that Andy should take a hand.
He gathered up two newspaper parcels, each of which leaked ragged hosiery and soiled linen at either end, and pottered along the platform at Paul's side, subservient and timid.
Paul, snatching up the poker, and the landlord pottered out the money.
We pottered about for an hour, and when we got home I thought I would retire to one of the rooms and rest for half an hour before I got back into my afternoon dress, but that was a delusion.
We pottered about for some time looking at the bits of old brocade and embroidery, some pieces stretched out on the pavement with a stone at each end to hold them down.
This morning we pottered about the Ponte Vecchio, where all the shops look exactly the same, and apparently the same old wrinkled men bending over their pearls and turquoises.
For over a quarter of an hour he pottered about the barn, going from stall to stall, rummaging the harness room and feed room, all to no purpose.
He potteredabout among his plants, looking at them, inspecting them closely, and scarce seeing them.
Cash did not even attempt to visit his trap line, but sat before the fire smoking or staring into the flames, or pottered about the little domestic duties that could not half fill the days.
Furthermore, he was hungry, and he did not propose to lie there and starve while old Cash pottered around the stove.
He had pottered all over Europe, he had looked at Africa, and had even put his head in at the door of the East, on a trip which included the Greek isles and Constantinople.
Now getting into the middle fifties, he had settled at Porth for the sake, as he said, of the Gulf Stream and the fuchsia hedges, and pottered over his books and his theories and the local gossip.
He pottered about among his belongings, and personally superintended just how everything was not stowed away.
He potteredabout among the faculty, to the members of which he talked mysteriously with ill-concealed exultation, for the theory was also a secret.
They were his nicest hours that they took from him, the hours when he and Father Lasse pottered about in the stable, and talked themselves happily through all the day's troubles into a common bright future; and Pelle cried.
He pottered about, treating everything as an omen.
She watched beside Mrs. Wix the great golden Madonna, and one of the ear-ringed old women who had been sitting at the end of their bench got up and pottered away.
As Jeanne pottered and poured, Poppea's wandering eyes caught upon a mere speck in the distance on the lower Bridgeton road.
At the coming of the evening mail he pottered as usual with the letters as though that day had been like all the others, and ate his supper with little sauce of conversation, to the inexpressible disappointment of Satira Potts.
The hardwood floor was being swept clean of sawdust and shavings all the time, by a lame old man, who pottered tranquilly about, sweeping and cleaning and putting the trash in a big box on a truck.
While he pottered about in the front garden, he tells us, his wife pottered about in the back garden; they made an idol of their chrysanthemums, and started or nourished the cult which has flourished so strongly since in Japan.
Neither he nor I alluded to the sound we had heard the night before; he boiled water and cleaned up the mess-kit, and I pottered about among the rocks for another ptarmigan.
They potteredabout the oyster-park, talking of oyster-culture.
That day, since the Professor chose (as he often did) to give lunch a miss while he wandered and pottered about in the Forest, he sent his niece into dejeuner alone.
He yawned plaintively, and pottered about the room.
He worked on, and pottered round the garden, and watched the young green plums swelling on his trees, and did a bit of gleaning, and thought the wheat would weigh bad when it was threshed out.
A slow, quiet man, of little or no education, he pottered about and looked after things in general.
And never once while thus he pottered around my torn and mangled jowl--not once, while I was being slaughtered, did I let out a single howl!
Henry had pottered about the place, and attended to some ploughing on the famous White grass-land, which was supposed to produce more hay than any piece of land of its size in the county.
He pottered about the place and was planning to get in a good hay crop, but this desultory sort of employment did not take the place of his regular routine of toil.
Pat was to stay for the winter with Barrow, and as soon as Baptiste had made us snow-shoes we pottered about in the woods together, hunting grouse and rabbits, and had soon entirely recovered our strength.
Beany recognized her at once as the deaf and dumb peasant woman who pottered around the offices brushing up and doing what odd jobs they could make her understand about.
A few minutes later, while the old woman still pottered around, Porky rose and idly left the room, whistling as he did so.
They pottered a good deal on the way among mud-puddles, for there had been a shower the night before.
Dame Evans pottered too in the dairy, but that was because pretty Miss Ruth Haverly called to bespeak some of the butter before it should be sent to market, and was trying her hands at the printing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pottered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
