Examples of butterball in a Sentence
I was a little butterball when I was a child.
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Turkey dinners include a 10 to 12-pound butterball turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, sage dressing, turkey gravy, green bean casserole, spinach artichoke dip and cranberry orange relish.
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Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The American failure to neutralize this preachy butterball suggested serious limits to the occupying force’s control of the situation.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Yukon Golds, butterball, new potatoes, and fingerlings are all terrific options.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2025
Mine was about four pounds and round as a butterball.
—Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2021
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
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
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Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The American failure to neutralize this preachy butterball suggested serious limits to the occupying force’s control of the situation.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Yukon Golds, butterball, new potatoes, and fingerlings are all terrific options.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2025
Mine was about four pounds and round as a butterball.
—Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2021
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
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
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“Butterball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butterball. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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