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
• With their bread-and-butter watches, Google and Samsung arguably changed the look and feel of their watches this year less than Apple.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Presidential elections, according to this logic, are decided by bread-and-butter issues: domestic politics, not foreign policy, is what matters.
  — Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024

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bread and butter

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• Casual clothing has always been the company's bread and butter.
• 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
• While meat may be their bread and butter, farm life isn’t cheap.
  — Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019
• 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
• In the near term, the F-Series will continue to be the bread and butter of Ford.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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 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
• 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
• Trade deals were supposed to be Trump’s bread and butter.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• But 40 years in, up-and-coming groups remain the show’s bread and butter.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• That’s why Schumer’s solo moments are the bread and butter of this movie.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2018
• The internet has been the bread and butter of your career.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
• While plays are her bread and butter, the novel is calling to her.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Zoë Kravitz surely isn’t ready to hang up the sheer looks that have become the bread and butter of her wardrobe.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
• So start with that house bread and butter that's speckled with sea salt ($7).
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
• Serve the stew with plenty of dark country bread and butter.
  — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• Popcorn has been the bread and butter at Tanger, and the Dots have been the better seller so far in Cheshire.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2024
• Space launches might be the company’s bread and butter, but pulling off a successful landing would be something else entirely.
  — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024