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
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
Smith almost butted in to share her own disapproval of parents who expose their children to “damaging, mind-altering technology,” when one of the women remarked, “Imagine giving something worth nine hundred dollars to a baby.”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020
But then Beatrice, who never listens, butted in.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
