butter
Example Sentences
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It probably wasn’t necessary to butter her up, but it couldn’t hurt.
From Literature
If you were born with the teeny-tiny DNA glitch that allowed you to slide in and out of time like a knife through butter, you were handed over to your country’s branch of the Academy.
From Literature
Small plates with buckwheat brioche and whipped herb butter.
From Los Angeles Times
The simple, stovetop kind: winter onions, softening in butter; carrots — either sweet from cold storage or newly pulled and still a little tender — sliced into coins.
From Salon
Another example is cookie butter that was trending, especially with the younger demographic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
