How to Use bread-and-butter in a Sentence

bread-and-butter

1 of 2 adjective

• But rewatching is the bread-and-butter of younger kids TV.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Such ideas were once the bread-and-butter of Republican establishment orthodoxy but have fallen out of a favor as the party has embraced Trump’s isolationist and populist views.
  — Jill Colvin, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Comcast’s bread-and-butter broadband Internet business has seen softness in recent quarters.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Then there is the upstart Taiwan People’s Party, which has sought to tap into disillusionment with the two dominant parties by focusing on bread-and-butter issues.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The amendments that were added to the defense authorization bill, however, highlight the degree to which cultural and social flash points have become the bread-and-butter issues for a significant part of the Republican base.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• That sentiment has helped propel the rise of a third: the Taiwan People’s Party, an upstart that has gained traction in the polls partly by tapping into frustration over bread-and-butter issues, especially among younger people.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Indeed, in a country with rampant poverty, inequality, and hunger, the average voter’s choices are driven more by bread-and-butter issues than abstract issues of democracy.
  — Omkar Poojari, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
• Unionized staff and Kaiser are fighting over bread-and-butter issues that organized labor and employers have tussled over for decades, albeit supercharged for a workforce still dogged by staffing shortages and high inflation after the pandemic.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Much of the address focused on bread-and-butter domestic issues like highways, health care, energy infrastructure and education.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• That strategy is particularly crucial as shoppers pull back on purchasing from its bread-and-butter categories: home goods and apparel.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
• The performance of its bread-and-butter lending and deposit-taking business offset a weaker performance for its investment-banking operation, which continued to be hit by a drought in deal making and capital raising by clients.
  — Patricia Kowsmann, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023

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bread and butter

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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
• Sampling has been your bread and butter from the start.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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
• But 40 years in, up-and-coming groups remain the show’s bread and butter.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• Serve the stew with plenty of dark country bread and butter.
  — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• All those things are the bread and butter of good old-fashioned drama.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
• For an offense with the skill like the Bengals have, the run game will never be their bread and butter.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• Both stuck to their bread and butter, and Duncanville just did it better.
  — Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2022
• The running game is the bread and butter of this offense, and the Ravens have to improve knocking players off the ball.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2022
• Heartbreak, in all of its forms, is her bread and butter, after all.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• Churning out yards on the ground does remain the Bulldogs’ bread and butter, though.
  — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• After all, she's best known as a movie star, and his bread and butter is TV comedies.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2022
• In the last matchup, the Ravens did a great job slowing down the Browns’ running game, which has been their bread and butter all season.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• The offense has to have more bread and butter than just running with Taylor.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2022
• However, pottery is the bread and butter of Art on Clay.
  — Megan Woolard, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2023
• Over the past decade, its bread and butter has been in animation.
  — Brett Bull, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• For dessert, pear flan, as well as bread and butter pudding, were favorites.
  — PEOPLE.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• These days, touring is a band's bread and butter, and a whole slew of '90s artists are out on the road right now and hitting Cincinnati this month.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2022
• The bread and butter of Peter Pan’s humor is broad and full of grievous injuries.
  — Vulture, 19 Apr. 2023
• And of course, then there's the typical conservative that makes up the bread and butter meat of the party.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• The menu isn’t posted, but Kin’s bread and butter is Southern comfort.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• There is no reason your reach has to be limited, but our bread and butter is in New York.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
• In an offense that is centered around running the ball, Jackson and Dobbins are the bread and butter.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2022
• Art worked on national campaigns, too, but his bread and butter was in this area.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• The big play, the Frogs’ bread and butter, will be difficult to execute against such a tough defense.
  — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024