How to Use buttock in a Sentence

buttock

noun
  • Use your hand to draw your left heel close to your buttocks.
    Gerard Hartmann, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Your glutes are the muscles that make up your buttocks area.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 18 Aug. 2025
  • One was shot in the hand and the other was shot in the buttocks.
    Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
  • Pull your foot toward your buttocks to stretch the back of your thigh.
    Claudia Herwig, Glamour, 20 May 2025
  • Bend over at the waist, spread your buttocks, let the deputy take a look there, too.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Flesh from her buttocks hung in ribbons and blood poured from her pelvis.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Bullets struck his back, chest, both buttocks, and both arms.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Doles was shot in the head, chest, right arm, right thigh, right foot, right calf and buttocks.
    Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Has there been a more bizarre scene on the pitch this season (buttocks aside)?
    Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 May 2026
  • Then the other would sweep down and bash his friend’s thigh or buttocks with his head.
    Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Davis went in for a hug and then, with both hands, grabbed and fondled my buttocks.
    Erin McParland, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The younger boy was shot four times in the back and buttocks and twice in the lower leg.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
  • Herpes may also show up as sores on the skin of the buttocks.
    Isadora Baum, Health.com, 29 May 2018
  • The man was shot in the right leg, and he woman was shot in the right leg and buttocks.
    Todd Feurer, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • They were hit on the back and buttocks with batons and gun barrels.
    Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Officers found the man was shot three times in the leg and buttocks.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
  • One woman was hit in the hip and buttock, the other in the arm and foot.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The 2-year-old had bruises and welts on his arms, back, buttocks and face.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • You will be asked to scoot your buttocks down to the very edge of the exam table.
    Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • He was hit in the buttocks with a round from Ramos’ gun, the report said.
    Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Ashlee and Clint scoop her up by cradling her buttocks and the back of her head.
    Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the last five years, one woman said a male co-worker bit her on the buttocks.
    Sari Botton, Longreads, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The standard length of the treatment on the thighs and buttock area is less than an hour.
    Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2021
  • An 18-year-old man was shot in the thigh and buttocks, police said.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The man grabbed a 20-year-old woman’s buttocks and breast then left.
    Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The inmate walks back to his place in line, putting his hand on his buttocks for a moment.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Rolfe fired three shots, striking Brooks twice in the back and left buttock and killing him.
    Mark Binelli, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The man was shot once each in the buttocks and the abdomen, while the dog was shot once in the shoulder.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There’s the fall onto the right or left buttock, followed by the roll onto the gut.
    Chuck Culpepper, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Kwoba still needs surgery to remove fragments from his buttocks and back thighs.
    Larry Madowo, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026

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