How to Use butt in a Sentence

butt

1 of 2 noun
  • Brax has worked his butt off to get back.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Same goes for the stretch marks on my butt.
    Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 4 Oct. 2025
  • My throat hit my butt and my butt hit the floor.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Do not let your hips sag or lift your butt too high.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Josh wakes up at the butt-crack of dawn to start work.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
  • One of them is going to wipe my butt.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lift your chest, arms and legs off the ground and squeeze your butt.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Not a single butt this episode.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Bend your right knee, hinge at your hips, and push your butt back.
    Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
  • Gas prices are kicking his butt right now.
    Tamara Keith, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • But the kids are never the butt of the joke.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This year my brother smoked a pork butt and ribs.
    Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Trevon’s going to work his butt off to get back.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has been the butt of countless jokes over the years.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In it, the dog licked its butt, then licked Paul’s lips.
    Simon Bland, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And sitting on your butt all day doesn’t work these glutes.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Travis jerked open the door and slid on his butt down a wing that was on fire.
    Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Back, butt, legs—nothing’s spared.
    Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That sparked the idea to take used butts, clean them up and put them to work.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Kick your right leg straight out behind you, and squeeze your butt.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
  • This man needs to get off his butt (and his phone) and help with his own kids!
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • And Aubry played her butt off this season.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
  • So get ready to skank your butt off in Vegas.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Push your butt back, bend your knees, and reach down to grip the handles.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • That’s enough room for nine chickens, eight rib racks, or six pork butts.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Debbie is thrilled to give his butt a little tap.
    Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Keeping your chest up and back flat, hinge at your hips and push your butt back.
    Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The maintenance is a pain in the butt.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Like a full on purple butt print on the seat, purple.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Other names who are fans of the butt-lifting style?
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 12 June 2026

butt

2 of 2 verb
  • But that doesn’t mean the two won’t butt heads in the future.
    Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Kevin and Taylor butted heads from there on out.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Clamp a stop block to the miter gauge fence, and butt the workpiece to it [5].
    Rosario Capotosto, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Her paws butted up against the pole that slid behind the door to keep it from being opened.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Get a co-parenting app and tell her mother to butt the hell out.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Then butt the adjoining side piece against it and start cutting.
    Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • While Tootles attempts to feed the alien flies, the alien sheep head-butts the glass.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Align the bottom and side boards of the phone caddy in an L shape, butting the joints.
    Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The crook of your hand between those two fingers should butt up against the back of the dorsal fin.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • The pair would inevitably butt heads, and Tetewsky would then run those projects into the ground.
    Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • YouTube has been butting heads with Disney over pricing.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Kizzi’s fate, drama-wise, is not in butting heads with people in her team, but in boatmance.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There are more valuable things to do than butt heads with everyone who disagrees with you.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • At least one union has made some progress in butting heads with Hollywood studios.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 June 2023
  • The two companies are butting heads on financial terms and rates.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But this is far from the first issue that Staten and Davis have butted heads over.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, pachycephalosaurs may have used their heads to butt each other along the flanks or hips as part of their combat.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That said, Bryan and Sam butted heads with creative differences all the time.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • That’s not to say the athletes and technicians don’t stubbornly butt heads from time to time.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Robby and Al-Hashimi aren’t the only ones butting heads on this shift, though.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • About 20 feet below the balcony, on the floor of the large domed barn, two of the half-dozen dairy cows were butting heads.
    Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Cameron was new to the franchise and was butting heads on set with a young female actor who was struggling with some of the props.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The two have butted heads in the past, notably when Stause accused Young of doing drugs.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Those conversations in real life do butt up against each other a lot more than people think.
    Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The sisters began to butt heads after the bride shared photos of her wedding dress a week prior.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Its surface butts up right against the cold vacuum of space, with no barrier in between.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The controversy seems to divide the group, as many of the ladies appear to butt heads on the matter.
    Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2021
  • But the grandness of these dreams butts up against the precarity that their dreamers are facing.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • As these boar and beavers escape, digging up his neighbor’s fields and damming his streams, the two farmers begin to butt heads.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Cartier and Tiffany aren’t the only luxury rivals to butt heads in a court room, though.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2022

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