butterfingers

Example Sentences

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Should England lose out, they will have questions to answer over their cavalier first-innings declaration, the fitness of Moeen Ali's finger and Bairstow's butterfingers.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023

While my favorite cousins Vic and Plas and our best friend Art ruled neighborhood pigskin games and Madden, my noodle arm and butterfingers read books and articles about the sport’s past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Jeudy may be a great route runner that consistently gets open, but those butterfingers are betraying those fantastic feet.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2020

Speaking as a chronic butterfingers myself: I really don’t think your wife is going to hurt your baby.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2020

I must have looked confused because he told me, “That’s my horn, my ax, my saxophone, the thing I make all my money with, so don’t get butterfingers and drop it.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis