BUTTER in a Sentence
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90 example sentences for BUTTER, such as:
1. Butter to butter is no relish.
2. Fine words butter no parsnips.
3. It is sweet as early grass butter in April.
4. You can substitute oil for butter in this recipe.
5. Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
2. Fine words butter no parsnips.
3. It is sweet as early grass butter in April.
4. You can substitute oil for butter in this recipe.
5. Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BUTTER
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butter
n. an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
n. a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1 While Gerald launched forth on his news, Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits, breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
2 In her large black hands was a tray upon which food smoked, two large yams covered with butter, a pile of buckwheat cakes dripping syrup, and a large slice of ham swimming in gravy.
3 Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
4 The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.
5 "There's more ways of killing a cat than choking him to death with butter," giggled Melanie when the whiskered old man had thumped down the stairs.
6 "Gimme the butter, Carrie," was Kennicott's comment.
7 Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter.
8 It is sweet as early grass butter in April.
9 In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing.
10 Peter, his companion, was a very different sort of fellow; short, bow-legged, and as fat as butter.
11 The milk was good for Pavel, who was often sick, and he could make butter by beating sour cream with a wooden spoon.
12 Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun.
13 She had milk and cream cheese to sell, and bread and butter.
14 Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
15 A long table, on which stood an urn, plates and cups, cakes and bread and butter, stretched across one end.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 The mobile phone business was actually his bread and butter.
2 Beat the butter and sugar together and slowly add the eggs.
3 The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
4 Beat the butter and sugar; then blend in the egg.
5 Separate off the top of the cream and use it to make butter.
6 Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
7 Foods that contain only medium levels of sodium are bread, cakes, milk, butter and margarine.
8 The cost of butter quadrupled and bread prices increased by a factor of five.
9 Fine words butter no parsnips.
10 Use a low-fat spread instead of butter.
11 You can leave the butter out of this recipe if you're on a low-fat diet.
12 Butter to butter is no relish.
13 You can substitute oil for butter in this recipe.
14 They revealed a solution to reduce Europe's butter mountain.
15 Eric earned his bread and butter as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by working with a dance band on weekends.