buttoned

past tense of button

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for buttoned
Verb
  • Samson noted that throughout fashion history, only garments for women have been designed with rear closures, with the possible exception amid the utopian Saint-Simonian sect in 19th-century France, when men wore waistcoats that fastened from behind, requiring assistance.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There, a group of KPMG staffers followed and sometimes interjected their own thoughts on the building, while workers fastened the last screws on light bulbs and organized plants strewn around the office.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • One thing missing, of course, given that there is a cargo bed there instead, is the spare wheel, which is affixed to the rear on a stock Land Rover Defender 130.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Along with encouraging parishioners to pledge money, Cioffi asked them to donate their jewelry, to be melted down and fashioned into a crown to be affixed to a painting of the Virgin on the altarpiece.
    Susan Mulcahy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Hannah McGuire stepped up to a microphone outside City Hall with hands clasped together in front of her and took a deep breath.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The pair took a spin through the watery exhibits, and then Hanks clasped his hands together.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Lakers tied the Detroit Pistons for the second-most wins in the NBA (eight) behind only the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder (10-1), but that wasn’t the only good news the team got on Monday.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Awards tied to market cap gains are paired with operational achievements.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The hotel, which cinched a Michelin Key this year, has 65 rooms and suites that skillfully combine historic Victorian style with modern touches.
    Cat Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Cyrus opted for a Saint Laurent look, consisting of an oversized trench coat cinched in at the waist.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The crocodile was seen swimming with the dead canine clamped between its jaws on Monday, per WESH.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One of the two animals ended up with part of Hohl's head inside its mouth, with its jaws clamped around his cheek and skull, while the other clamped onto his left ankle.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vande Kolk clenched his teeth to avoid crying.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Her purplish hands remained clenched on her chest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While millions are riveted by Sunday’s seven-minute jewelry heist of Napoleonic jewels at the Louvre, another major sizable snatching, the 1990 break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, resurfaced in the news in a different way.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Adelsons’ involvement in the murder case’s tangled web has riveted those in the state capital — and thousands of internet true crime sleuths — for nearly a decade.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Buttoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buttoned. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

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