How to Use bread-and-butter in a Sentence

bread-and-butter

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• But rewatching is the bread-and-butter of younger kids TV.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• But they’re also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF’s work: solving gun crimes.
  — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 26 June 2024
• The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Black said VanDyke had little appetite for the bread-and-butter state court cases that came with the job.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• Monken was not about to use any of his bread-and-butter looks in a meaningless contest.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Anti-lock brakes are optional on all DXs and on the bread-and-butter fourcylinder LX.
  — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• The issue occupies a key nexus where the bread-and-butter concerns of workers meet the larger goals of social justice.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
• This bold new version of fried bologna uses Creole mustard and bread-and-butter pickle chips.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• And his best routes, flare screens and intermediate digs, are the bread-and-butter concepts of a Shanahan offense.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
• Some people may have viewed this as a one-off type of thing as opposed to working with a local guy who's going to be here and is going to be their bread-and-butter.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
• This could impact Intel’s bread-and-butter CPU business.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• And because the return-to-office debate is still going strong, the office buildings and such that lots of local banks fund as their bread-and-butter are worth less.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• As Luisa aptly points out: The rise in alt exec ownership is, of course, in part due to the stunning returns alt firms have made in their bread-and-butter businesses over the past 25 years.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• Regional banks are facing the prospect of a slowdown in one of their bread-and-butter offerings, business lending.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sellers said Harris should make sure to focus on bread-and-butter issues like medical debt.
  — Chris Megerian, The Denver Post, 30 July 2024
• Of bigger concern was their success against Harrison’s bread-and-butter four-seam fastball.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
• But the shipyard recently launched a vessel that’s very different from its bread-and-butter designs—a series of superyachts.
  — Christopher King, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2024
• Levying upon bank accounts is perhaps the most bread-and-butter aspect of judgment enforcement, not to mention very likely the most common.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Jones totaled 17 carries over the last two seasons, but the majority was attacking the perimeter on jet sweeps and reverses, not bread-and-butter running back plays.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• The store plans to expand its hours, building off what has thus far been its bread-and-butter: speaking events, including one last week with local author Lauren Markham, who is promoting a new book.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
• As their name suggests, Full Circle’s bread-and-butter is restoring run-down historic properties to their full potential, and the show focuses on the house and its history.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• In a speech later in the day to a supportive labor group in Washington, Mr. Biden focused more on bread-and-butter issues, boasting of his record of creating jobs and financing new roads and bridges.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The collection crescendoed passionately into the evening with Saab’s bread-and-butter va-va-voom silhouettes.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
• Women’s magazines did and still do provide more journalism than just fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice, but this sort of content was bread-and-butter for so many.
  — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Stephenson’s bread-and-butter is analyzing hotel occupancy data to get a sense as to whether the events put more heads in beds than what’s typically seen.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• There in the Rust Belt, practical, bread-and-butter policies that help put food on the table tend to matter more than the identity politics and culture wars over which the two parties frequently bicker.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
• The union is focusing on bread-and-butter issues such as pay and benefits as well as pushing for measures that protect workers from changes brought about by new technology.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• For most of them, rationalizing our immigration system is not a bread-and-butter issue.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Analysts say the reaction was overblown, and that European banks are still benefiting from rate rises and better profits from their bread-and-butter lending.
  — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• This bargain may not sit well with domestic constituencies in partner countries more concerned about bread-and-butter issues than geopolitics.
  — Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022

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bread and butter

2 of 2 noun

• Casual clothing has always been the company's bread and butter.
• While meat may be their bread and butter, farm life isn’t cheap.
  — Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019
• Their couple spats were the bread and butter for a very specific era in celebrity news.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 24 June 2019
• Dramedies abound, the bread and butter of indie cinema.
  — refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• The song has a hip-hop beat and is full of the insults and cheeky humor that are Blink-182’s bread and butter.
  — Melissa Fossum, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019
• Two are fine, modestly sized aristocratic portraits, source of the artist’s bread and butter.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• But if high-grade wood production scales back, so does the low-grade ⁠— Wilson’s bread and butter ⁠— making it a hot commodity.
  — Lily Jackson | [e-mail], al.com, 20 June 2019
• The bread and butter pickle chip, demure and sweet, hides amid the fattier layers of a cheeseburger, begging not to be noticed or, worse, plucked out.
  — Samantha Allen, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2019
• Dell makes a frankly staggering assortment of laptops for just about every market, but their bread and butter has always been business machines.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
• Rounding out the burger is bacon bits from Saad meats, McClure’s brand bread and butter pickles, lettuce and a farm fresh egg.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
• The crisis has negatively impacted the country's bread and butter tourism industry.
  — Fox News, 28 June 2019
• Davis describes Horsetooth as having outstanding smallmouth fishing, offering a break from the bread and butter of trout fishing in colder waters.
  — Patricia Cameron, The Know, 22 June 2019
• The little essays—on black bread and butter eaten, a fountain pen stolen, Austria revisited—are painted precisely and charmingly.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• These fringe mushers are the bread and butter of the Yukon Quest, or used to be.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• That had been their bread and butter for most of the season.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2019
• But the other side to that is that that’s still their bread and butter.
  — Vulture, 14 July 2023
• Still, the waiter returned to push the bread and butter.
  — Noah Lederman, Bon Appétit, 9 June 2022
• Sight gags like that are Life in the Dreamhouse’s bread and butter.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• And live albums are like the bread and butter of the Gospel/worship genre.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Sampling has been your bread and butter from the start.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2024
• The macabre genre has become the grim bread and butter of Netflix over the last half-decade.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• The Texas factory will make the classic bag styles that form the bread and butter of the brand.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• The Pacers had 0 points off turnovers, which is their bread and butter.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2021
• Last online match of the year was a success, now back to our bread and butter for the Lans!
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 25 July 2021
• The twinkling eyes, the aquiline nose, the trademark goatee limned in bits of bread and butter.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022
• Politicians will force you to choose—that’s their bread and butter.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• Consider this work boot to be the bread and butter of men’s work boots.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
• The Browns pass rush is their bread and butter and the Colts offensive line is one of their strengths.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
• The kind of search queries that Berlinquette used are a campaign’s bread and butter.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
• That said, his bread and butter is his variety of chokes.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024