When a man wants to look slick, he takes an old blackin brush and rubs his domisil over with stove blackin, then goes over it with an old broom, puttin a polish onto a bildin, which makes it shine like a bran new cookstove.
Never havin heerd anything about the smokey condition of Pittsburgh, I was the victim of an adventoor which come mitey nigh puttin a quietuss, for a permanent period, onto my terrestial egistance.
The ladie landed right in front of the minister, were sum of the quire girls run to her rescue and kivered her up with shawls, puttin her in a carriage and sendin her home.
Wen I got home I drest up in my Sunday-skule cloes, and went round and wated wile my gal was puttin on her bandyline and rubbin her face with a red sawcer wot she sez she uses for newralgy.
I'd jest got there, and was puttin the last touches to my gostley toilet, wen I seen the reporter comin in the gate.
Then I giv em to her, and puttin them under her arm, she walked out as happy as culd be.
And what may the wisdom o' the country-side be puttin furth the noo?
Never a lee has onybody had a chance o' puttinintil the tale!
It's puttin up wi' it 'at's made them hollow cheeks an' dull heavy een.
We dooant want ony watter puttin in; when we want watter we can fotch it,--goa abaat yor business!
But what does ta think abaat old Strap puttin daan all his five childer musicianers?
Sammywell tried to keep his spirits up wi puttin some spirits daan, but he couldn't manage it, an it wor wi fear an tremblin at he lifted th' sneck when he went hooam.
What the dickens is ther to understand abaat puttin a winder in?
Nah, tha sees, that's all ready for puttin th' glass in.
I'd hev histed yoo out uv the seat yoo disgraced, and never hev let Linkin hed the credit uv puttin down a rebellion.
Some wuz for at once seezin the niggers wherever they cood be found, and puttin em at work; but the conservatives overruled this.
He wuz a promisin yooth," sed Seward, a puttin his handkercher to his eyes, "but the atmosphere uv the White House wuz too much for him.
The two girls hed each their waitin-maids, and wuz a puttin them through their paces.
In breef, wat wuz the sense, my brethren, in puttin new wine into old bottles?
Puttin on her prettiest smile and rollin her eyes, and arching her shoulders she cum back with "if Monsewer will pleese brush off ze flies, he will find it is custard pie--NOT ze huckleberry.
I hadna the slightest personal acquaintance wi' her, nor ony access to her society; but this didna hinder me adorin her in my secret heart, nor prevent me puttin doon stockins to customers when they asked for nightcaps.
I jest hauled up my old hickery and laid it on the tabil, an then puttin my elbows on the tabil to rest myself, I began.
The old Ginneral didn't say much, only once in a whileputtin in a questshin.
I go for puttin down every feller that's opposed to the Constitushin, I don't keer who he is.
He does it by puttin half in your cup an half on your thumb.
It is the same thing as puttin powder on your face instead of washin it.
A place that wed be puttin bronze tablets on they think has just been built.
Ive been puttin on weight ever since I got here but its all been on my back.
You can get the idear by lyin down an puttin a sofa pillo over you.
A couple of mornins after I rote you last Joe woke me up an said they were puttin on a battle upstairs.
A squad of Fritzes was puttin a few of our doboys on stretchers an carryin them off down the road.
From where we was the Fritzes seemed to be puttin up a pretty good argument all alone an most of it seemed to be goin in the direckshun of the battery.
Oh now let us in, that's a sweet man," sed several femails, puttinthare arms round me in luvin style.
Sez I, risin and puttin on a austeer look, "William, I woodunt be a fool if I had common cents.
I heard him puttinup the prices and I sho hope he didn't get me.
Its like a puttinginger under a horse's tail; it makes him carry up real handSUM, I tell you.
He was in great spirits, the old man, he was so proud of winnin the race, and puttin the leake into the New Yorkers--he looked all dander.
The difference atween a wife and a sweetheart is near about as great as there is between new and hard cider--a man never tires of puttinone to his lips, but makes plaguy wry faces at tother.
She is not the first hand that has caught a lobster, by puttinin her oar afore her turn, I guess.
I, puttin on my hat and startin, look to yourselves, and don't look to others.
She would come in en fetch her dat tin plate up dere full of corn bread en molasses en den she would go to puttin dem ration way.
I ain' been raise to dem cause when I come up, de olden people didn' think nothin bout puttinno stoves to dey fireplaces.
I aint goin to hab nobody come along puttin down my age what dunno anyting about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puttin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
