How to Use butt heads in a Sentence
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Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026
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Newman lived down the hall from Jerry, and the two often butted heads, worsened by Newman’s participation in Kramer’s wild schemes.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
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In the final embers of the match, Haaland and Gabriel literally butted heads, the latter appearing to shove his brow into that of his opponent.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026
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Both countries are publicly butting heads over a massive data leak at Coupang, a prominent online retail firm that is ubiquitous in daily South Korean life.
—Kelly Kasulis Cho, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026
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At home, Sheldon butts heads with his devoutly religious mother, Mary (Zoe Perry), and his veteran father, George Sr.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
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Ron Howard recalled working with John Wayne on 1976 film The Shootist, where the veteran actor butted heads with director Don Siegel.
—Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
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