Words similar to puttering

Example sentences for: puttering

How can you use “puttering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Tabloid staple Celine Dion, for one, "plans to make love like there's no tomorrow," according to the National Enquirer . With her husband-manager Rene Angelil's cancer in remission, Dion is taking a much-needed career hiatus to focus on getting pregnant--a plan that supposedly includes spending time "puttering around the kitchen because it makes her feel maternal."
They are also suitable for puttering in the garden, plea bargaining on both the federal and state levels, or writing fiction or poetry (blank verse only, please--Slate cannot be held responsible for rhymes).
All this soft-focus packaging conveys the popular image of Claude Monet (1840-1926) as the painter of weekend pleasures, puttering around in his aqueous garden and filling his canvases with sunlit lilies reflected in the pink and blue water--a rococo Fragonard or Boucher marooned in the early 20 th century.