Use butter in a sentence
Sentences starting with butter
- Butter asked me what I thought of the idea. [5]
- Butter would not melt in his mouth. [11]
- Butter wouldn't melt in their mouths. [11]
- Butter wouldn't kill himself with the life-preserver in sight, and so I had an idea. [5]
- Butter but any cakes, fill any undertaker, we'll wean him from his filly. [5]
- Butter don't stand any show--there ain't any chance for competition. [5]
- Butter beans. [5]
Sentences ending with butter
- Upon the table was the usual service, the heavy, much nicked stone ware, the row of plated and rusty castors, the sugar bowls with the zinc tea-spoons sticking up in them, the piles of yellow biscuits, the discouraged-looking plates of butter. [5]
- The farm continued under the expert direction of a superintendent who was a graduate of the State Agricultural College, and a select clientele, which could afford to pay the prices, consumed the milk and cream and butter. [9]
- It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them sloshing around in your head same as so much drawn butter. [5]
- The products of the dairy were less, though I saw one that I do not recollect ever to have seen in America, a landscape in butter. [4]
- A few hams still hung in the chimney by good luck; and there were chickens and eggs in plenty; but of all else little enough, even of butter. [10]
- Fame, reputation, constant public mention--these are the detective's bread and butter. [5]
- Do earls' sons go about working in lowly callings for their bread and butter? [5]
- He's putting potted chicken on the butter. [11]
- His name was Butter. [5]
- I commend Holland butter. [10]
Short sentences using butter
- Products, beef, pork, butter, cheese. [6]
- American butter. [5]
Sentences containing butter two or more times
- Dishes of butter were distributed along the table within reach of people's arms, if they had long ones, but there were no private butter plates. [5]
- If, for instance, butter was spoken of, by the help of suitable motions the cow was milked, the milk was poured into a pan and skimmed, the cream was churned, the butter was made into pats and finally sent to market. [10]
- Then it ate a quantity of butter, pepper, salt, and California matches, actually taking a spoonful of butter, a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of pepper, and three or four lucifer matches at each mouthful. [5]
More example sentences with the word butter in them
- Ursel will tell you what sinful prices we have paid since for butter and meat. [10]
- No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
- But, on the whole, we rolled southward happily, between high walls and hedges, past trim gardens and fields and meadows, and I marvelled at the regular, park-like look of the country, as though stamped from one design continually recurring, like our butter at Carvel Hall. [9]
- There is nothing whatever that he will not eat but European butter, and he would eat that if he could taste it. [5]
- And Uncle Tom was right when he said we should have nothing but jam and bread and butter for supper: oh, yes, and cold meat. [9]
- Olive-oil has its value for polishing steel, but butter is the right thing for roasting and frying; so that's enough! [10]
- No, we never use butter on them. [5]
- She was ever up to her elbows in some dish, and her butter and her biscuits were the best in the province. [9]
- Wetmore came up to their corner, with a scroll of bread and butter in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. [8]
- You are going to see the day, pretty soon, when you can't find an ounce of butter to bless yourself with, in any hotel in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, outside of the biggest cities. [5]
- He uses his title as a weapon for advancement as though he were a butter merchant. [11]
- Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen. [12]
- The waiter prepared them for purchasers by putting a large piece of yellow butter on the smoking pile. [10]
- He lived in the town of Goshen,--not the place where the butter is made, but a much better Goshen than that. [4]
- Also it was the time of year when butter and eggs, chickens and ducks were so cheap that it was a humiliation not to buy. [11]
- Only there at the edge of the water, where Butter was to end himself, lay a life-preserver--a big round canvas one, which would float after the scrap-iron was soaked out of it. [5]
- Should you dispute the bill, I will not stoop to quarrel with you, but, try to live on bread and butter a while longer. [9]
- Can you believe that in all Spain there is no fresh butter to be had, either for bread or in the kitchen for roast meat, but instead rancid oil, which we should think just fit for burning? [10]
- Everywhere his steamer stopped people came with backsheesh in the shape of butter, cream, flour, eggs, fowls, cloths, and a myriad things. [11]
- Afternoon tea was still rather a new custom with us, more of a ceremony than a meal; and as Nancy handed me my cup and the thinnest of slices of bread and butter I found the intimacy of the situation a little disquieting. [9]
- Because I have some faculties which are more than bread and butter, and I must give them opportunity. [11]
- It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter milk gurgling from a jug. [5]
- After this he raised his hands to heaven, and, while the other priests continually fed the flames into a wilder blaze by casting in fresh butter, sang a long prayer out of the sacred books. [10]
- The butter was perhaps good enough, and was quiet and well behaved; but it had more bouquet than was necessary, though nobody commented upon that fact or seemed in any way disturbed by it. [5]
- We supply most of the boats in the West; there's hardly a pound of butter on one of them. [5]
- Buy as much meal, butter, cheese, and smoked meat, as is possible. [10]
- And the dam little dwarf Parpon, he say: 'He will have flowers on the table and ice on the butter, and a wheel in his head. [11]
- A man who like me, is going to strike 70 on the 30th of next November has no business to be flitting around the way Howells does--that shameless old fictitious butter fly. [5]
- There is a legend that he got his bread and butter by holding horses in front of the London theaters, mornings and afternoons. [5]
- When we annex it to our sprawling country which lies out-doors in so many climates, it will make a charming little retreat for us in May and June, a sort of garden of delight, whence we shall draw our May butter and our June roses. [4]
- If flag horfocers I roots of is booted haside to rankle like a lump o' salt butter in a gallipot, 'ow will a poor Scotch lieutenant win hadvancement an' he be not o' the King's friends? [9]
- Because there are hosts who do not discriminate as to the eggs or the butter they eat, it does not follow that a normal taste should not know the difference. [4]
- If you hate honey or cheese, or the products of the dairy,--I know a family a good many of whose members can't touch milk, butter, cheese, and the like, why, say so, but don't find fault with the bees and the cows. [6]
- What I cannot help wishing is, that Adam had been postponed, and Martin Luther and Joan of Arc put in their place--that splendid pair equipped with temperaments not made of butter, but of asbestos. [5]
- There was no gas, there were no candles; a bronze dish half full of boarding-house butter with a blazing rag floating in it was the thing that produced what was regarded as light. [5]
- Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper. [5]
- The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. [7]
- Maybe you'll butter everybody's bread pretty soon, but we'll cotton-seed his salad for him from the Gulf to Canada, and that's a dead-certain thing. [5]
- When it is done, remove it; blow off all the ashes but one layer; butter that one and eat. [5]
- Oropastes, the chief Destur,--[Priest]--now drew near the fire and cast fresh butter into it. [10]
- And then the butter, so fresh and cool, and the delicious eggs--by the way, he had left a hatful in the kitchen as he came in. [4]
- The white meats--milk, butter, and cheese--though very dear, are reputed as good for inferior people, but the more wealthy feed upon the flesh of all sorts of cattle and all kinds of fish. [4]
- A man was bound by the conditions governing the profession by which he earned his bread and butter and played his part in the world, while striving to reach the seats of honour in high places. [11]
- As the lad ate his wonderful breakfast, in which nearly half a pot of marmalade and enough butter for three ordinary people figured, Stafford read the papers attentively, to give his guest a fair chance at the food and to overcome his self-consciousness. [11]
- Clean cloth, napkin and table furniture, white sugar, a vast hunk of excellent butter, good bread, first class coffee with pure milk, fried fish just caught. [5]
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