butter up

Examples of butter up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Warming the milk and butter up first helps to avoid any milk fat white spots on top of your decadent chocolate cake. Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2024 Griffin isn’t the only big-name boss to try and butter up workers by putting on an unforgettable party. Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023 Ripple’s ongoing efforts to butter up the banking and corporate world have made the company, and by extension XRP, an object of hostility and derision among the rest of the crypto world. Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 24 Mar. 2023 Next, coat the bottom of a casserole dish with butter, place the potatoes in, and pat more butter up on top. Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Nov. 2021 At the center: six cinnamon rolls that a candidate alleged had been used to butter up voters during the tight mayoral race in October. María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023 Steele storms out, but Sarah stays behind to butter up the AG. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2022 But why was butter up 6% in March, while milk rose only 1.3%? Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022 The producers even included a vegan baker in the mix, a woman who put her cakes without eggs or butter up against those ofher peers without missinga beat. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021

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