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
Mr. Christie quickly butted in, claiming that “Ron gets asked a question and he doesn’t answer.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 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
I know it ain’t right, but I butted in on Ma afore she had a chance to get any words out ’bout me being a fra-gile boy.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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