butting

Example Sentences

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Instead, investors doubled down on soaring precious metals as gold prices continued to break new ground, butting up close to $4,900 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Each has something the other needs, which pulls them together despite occasionally butting heads.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

But just two years after ascending to power, that ability seems to have fizzled out – leaving Gachagua butting heads with the president and in a position where many legislators are pushing for his removal.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

"Queer Planet," a new documentary now streaming on Peacock, opens with a pair of bighorn sheep, both males, who are literally butting heads.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024

I first started butting heads with Dad in 1948—I was only nine—because he dragged us away from Mississippi.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe