How to Use butt in a Sentence

butt

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• The way it’s cut around the legs and the butt is perfect.
  — Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• This year seemed to be more about the butt than the boobs for the Met Gala.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• And turnovers down the stretch almost bit us in the butt.
  — Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 2 Feb. 2023
• Lift your chest, arms and legs off the ground and squeeze your butt.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
• And, thus, the Timberwolves were back to being the butt of the joke.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2024
• The butt of a rifle struck him in the side of the head, knocking him off his feet.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• This man needs to get off his butt (and his phone) and help with his own kids!
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Push your butt back, bend your knees, and reach down to grip the handles.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
• Cuts of Ham Whole Ham Whole hams include both the butt ham and shank ham from the leg.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• Push your butt back and hinge at the waist to bend down to grab the bar on either side of your legs.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• Coat the pork butt with the dry spice rub on all sides and place on top of the onion mixture in the crockpot.
  — Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 4 May 2024
• The duo was dressed to kick butt, and the costumes helped convey that sense of power.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024
• Push your butt back, then lower your torso to reach down and grab the bar.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 19 Apr. 2023
• Tan also noted that the show never makes a child the butt of any joke.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Slowly lower the bar by pushing the butt back and gliding the bar right along the thighs.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• To correct it: Make sure to push your butt back into a hinge.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• That’s enough room for nine chickens, eight rib racks, or six pork butts.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
• Your butt should be up against the wall so that your body is at a 90-degree angle.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023
• How to: Start kneeling at back of mat with toes tucked and butt resting on heels.
  — Women's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Because there’s something very f—ing wrong with the butt right now.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
• Each of these knives has had its butt kicked—and its belly, bolsters, spine, and scales.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
• Alfred made the mistake of looking up at one point, only to be struck on the head with the butt of a gun.
  — Theresa McKinney, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
• Then, slowly bend right knee and send hips backward to lower butt close to the ground.
  — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Don't rush the movements, and don't lose tension or allow your butt to raise.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
• Firm on one end, yielding on the other, its very parts — the shaft, throat, head, rim, butt — are named with a wink-wink.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
• Fans obsess over who’s voicing him, and the size of the character’s butt.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Rest your butt on your heels, knees slightly wider than torso, and hands in lap.
  — Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• As Joel flails in the fog, someone emerges and knocks him unconscious with the butt of their rifle.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• This version of the butt lift is performed on patients with less body fat.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 18 Oct. 2023
• She was seen in photos and videos with the butt of a pistol jutting from her waistband.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer The Associated, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2023

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butt

2 of 2 verb

• Clamp a stop block to the miter gauge fence, and butt the workpiece to it [5].
  — Rosario Capotosto, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2021
• But that doesn’t mean the two won’t butt heads in the future.
  — Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
• Align the bottom and side boards of the phone caddy in an L shape, butting the joints.
  — Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• At the same time, Bynes was butting heads with her parents.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• About 20 feet below the balcony, on the floor of the large domed barn, two of the half-dozen dairy cows were butting heads.
  — Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The pair would inevitably butt heads, and Tetewsky would then run those projects into the ground.
  — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The crook of your hand between those two fingers should butt up against the back of the dorsal fin.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• But this is far from the first issue that Staten and Davis have butted heads over.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• This is where human cities butt up against the wilderness.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
• That said, Bryan and Sam butted heads with creative differences all the time.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• The controversy seems to divide the group, as many of the ladies appear to butt heads on the matter.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2021
• Then butt the adjoining side piece against it and start cutting.
  — Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• Any collective is going to butt heads from time to time.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
• Some people thrive on butting right up against deadlines.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• And Ramona isn't the only woman to butt heads with the newcomer.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• Head-butted by a Maine Moose In this video from 2015, the drama intensifies.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• At least one union has made some progress in butting heads with Hollywood studios.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• Cartier and Tiffany aren’t the only luxury rivals to butt heads in a court room, though.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2022
• Instead, pachycephalosaurs may have used their heads to butt each other along the flanks or hips as part of their combat.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• There are more valuable things to do than butt heads with everyone who disagrees with you.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The ideal position is: butt a few inches above the floor, hip crease below the knees, toes pointed forward, heels flat (A).
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Slip a stretcher over the connector on each leg, butt it tightly to the adjoining surface, and tighten the setscrews.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2021
• The lead prosecutor and defense lawyer got into a heated argument over the mom's meltdown, and butted heads the rest of the day.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
• In Paradise's case, it was not only butted up against forest, it was intertwined in the forest.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
• Twitter and the Modi administration were bound to butt heads in court over free speech.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 July 2022
• The comments come as Facebook continues to butt heads with Apple.
  — Fortune, 23 June 2021
• Best for use where: The cooling formulation works best on the thighs, stomach, and butt, where it should be applied daily.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
• Every other Scout there seemed to have their friend groups established, and Audrey didn’t want to butt into those.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Stevens and Levin are set to face each other in a forum on Tuesday, the latest chance the two have to publicly butt heads in advance of the August 2 primary.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Facebook and Netflix appeared ready to butt heads in the streaming world, and the Netflix cofounder found himself in the middle as a Facebook board member.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024