butted in
Example Sentences
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A boy near me butted in: "Wow, you don't get this?"
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024
“OBJECTION,” the defense butted in, though it was overruled.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023
As he explained that his ministry had launched a programme to produce helicopter engines in St Petersburg that were previously made in Ukraine, the president butted in, complaining it was all taking too long.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2023
At Hollywood High School, her classmates included Linda Evans, Tuesday Weld and Yvette Mimieux, a "movie star, even when she butted in front of you in the cafeteria line."
From Fox News • Dec. 20, 2021
Without even thinking about what I was doing, I butted in on Miss Thomas and said, “That means that’s not some little dead girl’s room I’m sleeping in, that’s my momma’s room!”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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