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Example sentences for "butting"

Lexicographically close words:
butternuts; butterwort; buttery; buttes; butther; buttock; buttocks; button; buttoned; buttonhole
  1. She was butting her snub nose furiously into swelling combers.

  2. An hour later the packet was sluggishly butting waves with her blunt bows in the lower harbor, Cap'n Sproul hanging to the weather-worn wheel, and roaring perfectly awful profanity at the clumsy attempts of his makeshift crew.

  3. It was pretty to see them lying near their masters, playing and butting at them with their horns, or bleating for the sweet rye-bread.

  4. And you can get it right now that I wouldn't stand the devil himself butting in to stop me.

  5. And there's surely nothing calculated to upset things more than a man butting in, where the same girl's fragment of brain is worrying to fit something that doesn't fit anyway.

  6. If you can stand Follet butting in, why can't you stand Schneider?

  7. Why don't you make that girl stop butting in?

  8. That girl with the kalsomine on her face made remarks about folks butting in.

  9. And if your father hadn't just died I'd lick the stuffing out of you, Still, for butting in.

  10. Iron Skull cleared his throat: "I hope you don't mind my butting in this-a-way!

  11. And if you'd adopt a leather headguard, it would protect you in your favorite job of butting in.

  12. I have had to do some hard butting in my early days, on account of the reputation I had made for my head.

  13. Many years have rolled by, and I have never heard the last of that butting adventure.

  14. Up came the mate, who observed: "We've got a fireman down below who has killed two or three niggers by butting them to death with his head.

  15. After they gave up trying to have me whipped, and they knew more about my old head, they would all go broke that I could whip or kill any man living, white or black, by butting him.

  16. He can kill any man living, white or black, by butting him.

  17. You understand that it is nothing except anxiety for his personal condition that I thought warranted my butting into his affairs and yours.

  18. And I was scared to death wondering how to do it without butting in.

  19. Sort of sympathetic butting in, isn't it?

  20. Glancing at Bennington, he added: "Sorry, if I'm butting in.

  21. The end came abruptly—butting up against a pile of large stones.

  22. What do you mean by butting in on a dangerous mission like this?

  23. To strike him on the head, was like butting into a brick wall with his fist, and the first blow indicated that the soft portions of Toplinsky’s body were as hard as his head.

  24. And I'll tell you one thing: you've made the mistake of your life butting into Dead Man's Cache.

  25. She felt as if she were butting her head against a stone wall.

  26. An engine of war used for butting or battering.

  27. I know it really, but I can’t help skipping about and butting round.

  28. He didn't guess it would be good Alec butting in.

  29. I don't see why under the sun you had to come butting into it!

  30. I want to know who Smith is, and where he hails from, and how he comes to be butting in.

  31. Been butting in a little on your game, this evening, just to be doing.

  32. It was almost a week before Snowball felt like butting anybody.

  33. Little did he dream that Snowball was rushing towards him from behind, rushing with head lowered in his best butting style.

  34. Not going to have any of those fellows butting in and telling ME how to run MY business!

  35. Yes, it would jar you to have Bert butting in," he said amiably.

  36. ANNA--You've got your nerve butting in here without knocking or nothing.

  37. Where do you come in butting in and making things worse?

  38. The tree which fell was broken into four parts; two of them resting with their fractured ends butting each other on the log, while their other ends rested at ten or twelve feet distance upon the earth.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "butting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.