How to Use butt heads in a Sentence

butt heads

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  • However, the pair has also butted heads in the past with their respective styles.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • Everyone seems to be getting along except for Andriy and Bobby, who are already butting heads with Jude caught in the middle.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • 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
  • The comedian and the president began butting heads after a 2006 episode of The View.
    Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Louder plays Imani, a Black elementary school teacher who butts heads with Ben, a white executive, and wakes up the next day in his body after a mysterious escape room adventure.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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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