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
Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenged the Teamsters union head to ‘stand your butt up’ so they could settle their differences during a Senate panel hearing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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
It’s so frigid and so utterly and completely dark that she forgets about the pain in her feet and in her butt and even, for a moment, her heart.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.