If I had eight million dollars, or one million, don't you suppose I'd be DOING something, instead of puttering away with just the beginning of things!
Why, they tried not to have me do a thing--and I didn't do much, only a little puttering around just to help out with the work.
Wednesday morning she spent happily puttering over "doing up" some handkerchiefs, and she wondered why Nancy kept banging the oven door so often.
It prejudiced Bruce against him as all hisputtering had failed to do.
He spent an hour puttering about the carriage room, whistling a cheerful two-step and vainly pretending to himself that he felt in a cheerful frame of mind.
Last night after I brought the cot in and was about to finish my puttering bachelor supper, she climbed to the edge of the box and pointed, first at herself and then at the top of the kitchen table.
At half-past four that afternoon Ray was puttering about the barnyard when his wife came up the lane along the creek and called him.
She likely foresaw the snarl that was comin' through Henry's puttering with these inventions.
When told of it the school superintendent, a puttering old fellow with vacant eyes, had shaken his head in alarm and declared that it must be looked into.
The picture was a caricature of puttering old Frank Huntley, superintendent of the Caxton schools.
He approached the mechanics who were puttering about the machine.
John's will power had been shrouded with curious puttering studies; long heavy-breathing sittings with the ouija board on his lap, midnight hours when he had fancied that tables had tapped and crackling coals had spoken.
Settling her hat, whose black wing stuck out with a virtuous swagger, Mrs. Tyarck gave herself all the married woman's amusement over the puttering concerns of a spinster.
There were lucid intervals shot through with the malignant presence of Minetti and the puttering visits of the doctor.
King James, who was frivolously fond of putteringin novel projects, had personally framed a code of unwise laws and orders.
Assuming at first the air of playing the arbiter, James, who dearly loved a puttering theological debate, could not refrain from taking the cause of the churchmen out of their hands and arguing it himself.
Their love making was like his puttering with a camera--to make the weekends pass.
As for puttering about with a camera--was it not a form of cheating?
I'll go sit by the tree in the orchard until mother has finished puttering about the kitchen," she thought.
There is a difference between careful, painstaking effort, and the puttering away of valuable time.
There is absolutely no value in poor, careless, puttering work.
I do honestly believe that if it weren't for fear of starvation, you'd be puttering here for ten years.
If Roger's begun puttering on the engine we may be here ten years.
The puttering love of explaining and the need of explaining dog his soul at every turn of thought or thought of having a thought.
I cannot seem to stop somehow--begin puttering once more with my Little One.
The rapidity of a man's education depends upon his power to scent a duplicate fact afar off and to keep from stopping and puttering with it.
The school of tuna showed again, puttering and fiddling around, with great blue-and-green flashes caught by the sun.
It became manifest then that my knees were wabbling, my feet puttering around, my whole lower limbs shaking as if I had the palsy.
If you get one corner out of place, all four will probably be thrown out of position before you get through puttering with them, and the glue become cold and the operation be spoiled.
Bell lived in Sanders's home for a considerable period, dividing his time between teaching his little pupil how to talk and puttering away at a proposed invention which he called a "harmonic telegraph.
Anyhow, we won't want to be puttering around the old mill much," said Dick.
If only the old hermit doesn't come puttering around to bother us," suggested Jack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puttering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
