butt

Example Sentences

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What followed was a comedy of errors including military drills that outpaced anything this group of office workers had in mind, a rogue porcupine, stranded airplanes and one syringe to the butt of an employee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But I never wanted religion to be the butt of the joke.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

"When you are new into an administration, when a company merges or many other issues and circumstances where you do have to butt heads sometimes," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

O’Brien said he’d “love to,” Mullin told him to “Stand your butt up then,” and O’Brien said, “You stand your butt up.”

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026

Mom hasn’t made me laugh so hard since that time she took a balled-up sock out of a laundry basket and threw it at Dad’s butt.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan