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How to use putt in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Putt means the act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. Example: “She managed to anhyzer the disc around the boulder to make the putt for a birdie.”

Examples of putt by meaning

verbTo lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

  • Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

More sentences with putt

  • She managed to anhyzer the disc around the boulder to make the putt for a birdie.From the entry anhyzer
  • This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.From the entry borrow
  • At this resort there's an 9-hole golf course, a small putting green and an 18-hole pitch and putt course.From the entry pitch and putt
  • And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had the force with them as well.1999 September 28, Mike Selvey, “Crenshaw vindicated by a chain reaction”, in The Guardian. From the entry force
  • Lambert just missed his three; his putt lipped the hole before finishing two feet past it.1999, J. M. Gregson, chapter 9, in Malice Aforethough, Sutton: Severn House, page 112. From the entry lip
  • You can be leaning over a six foot putt when suddenly whooshka!!1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 202. From the entry whooshka
  • She wold have putt in her bill of complant affor my Lord of Richmonde’s counsell.16C, title unavailable, as quoted by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century (1962), volume [illegible], page 116. From the entry affor
  • Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.2008, Golf Jokes and Anecdotes from Around the World, page 28. From the entry chalant
  • He cautiously tapped that putt but not cautiously enough; it nearly rolled off the green, leaving himself 15 feet back up the hill.2022 July 22, Alan Bastable, “‘How the f— do you play this?’ Why this brutal par-3 torments even the pros”, in Golf.com. From the entry quattuordecuple
  • Both Arnold Palmer and Gary Player have been quoted as saying that if they could change one thing about their games, they would have putted cross-handed early in their career.2009, Dr. Craig L. Farnsworth, The Putting Prescription: The Doctor's Proven Method for a Better Stroke, →ISBN, pages 42–43. From the entry cross-handed

Meaning of putt

  1. noun The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
  2. verb To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
  3. noun A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.

Full definition of putt

Questions about putt in a sentence

How do you use putt in a sentence?
Putt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She managed to anhyzer the disc around the boulder to make the putt for a birdie.”
What is a short sentence with putt?
“Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.”
What does putt mean?
Putt means the act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: putt (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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