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18 examples of Putters in a sentence

And Maheu was in despair; another piece of ill-luck; one of the best of his putters gone without any chance of replacing her at once.
A shrill girl's voice said at last:"One of them must be on Mouquette, sure enough!" There was a roar of laughter, and the putters of the whole seam held their sides.
Haulage began again on the nine levels, and one only heard the regular calls of the trammers, and the snorting of the putters arriving at the upbrow and steaming like over-laden mares.
At last he said to his wife:"It's Maheu who brings me this gentleman, one of his putters, to see if there is a room for him upstairs, and if we can give him credit for a fortnight."
It was said that she yielded the conjugal bed to the putters among the customers.
All the putters got their first child there when they did not take the trouble to go to Réquillart or into the cornfields.
It was the common rendezvous, the remote and deserted spot to which the putters came to get their first child when they dared not risk the shed.
In three weeks he was named among the best putters in the pit; no one pushed a tram more rapidly to the upbrow, nor loaded it afterwards so correctly.
There was especially a number of putters and landers, even trammers of fourteen, all the youth of the pit, drinking more gin than beer.
Beneath the garlands of painted paper the dancers could no longer see each other, they perspired so much; this encouraged the trammers to tumble the putters over, catching them at random by the hips.
Behind the thin lilacs the trammers no longer tumbled the putters over on the shed, and only the winter vegetables remained, the cabbages pearled with white frost, the leeks and the salads.
Outside, putters, miners, and boys were running about, forming groups and talking in a low voice.
Some putters were still standing at the door talking with some miners who were waiting about to look on.
In fact, she was not jealous; she joked him about the putters, whom he declared to be abominable, and she almost sulked because he had no young man's pranks to narrate to her.
In the growing tumult the dust rose from the floor, a floating dust of former balls, poisoning the air with a strong odour of putters and trammers.
In spite of the weak light of the lanterns, with a quick look he took in the scene, with this rabble wrapt in shadow; he knew every face--the pike-men, the porters, the landers, the putters, even the trammers.
The cages filled and were engulfed, and rose again, the shaft swallowing its ration of trammers and putters and pikemen; while on the metal floors the landers pushed the trains with a sound of thunder.
Pikemen, putters, trammers crossed them at every step; no one knew anything; all were shouting; it must be some great misfortune.