Examples of butterball in a Sentence
I was a little butterball when I was a child.
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Mine was about four pounds and round as a butterball.
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Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2021
Jackson shopped him, hoping to get Blake Griffin or Kevin Love, only to learn that no one would give up a star for a soon-to-turn-33-year-old butterball with a modest resume (three playoff series wins in 13 seaons) and a $24.6 million salary.
—Mark Heisler, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
Lohuis rated each sheep's body condition on a five-point scale where zero was dead and five was as fat as a butterball.
—Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2021
Jackson shopped him, hoping to get Blake Griffin or Kevin Love, only to learn that no one would give up a star for a soon-to-turn-33-year-old butterball with a modest resume (three playoff series wins in 13 seaons) and a $24.6 million salary.
—Mark Heisler, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
Lohuis rated each sheep's body condition on a five-point scale where zero was dead and five was as fat as a butterball.
—Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
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“Butterball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butterball. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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