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How to use butter in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Butter means a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). Example: “That landing was total butter!”

Examples of butter by meaning

nounAny of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

  • Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.2016 September 7, Elaine Stavert, Beauty Oils & Butter, GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD, →ISBN

nounAny specific soft substance.

  • butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

nounA smooth plane landing.

  • That landing was total butter!

verbTo spread butter on.

  • Butter the toast.

More sentences with butter

  • As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.From the entry last
  • She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.From the entry spread
  • He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.From the entry spread
  • Add sugar and butter, then turn the mixture into a dish.From the entry turn
  • Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.From the entry dollop
  • Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.From the entry crannies
  • She makes these chocolate-peanut butter candies that are just to die for.From the entry to die for
  • He can’t even make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? What a nub.From the entry nub
  • Alice went to the diner and ordered a stack of silver dollars with butter and blueberry syrup.From the entry silver dollar
  • Clarified butter is made by removing water and impurities from butter.From the entry clarified
  • This warm margarine is much more spreadable than that lump of cold butter.From the entry spreadable
  • For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.From the entry hotcake
  • “What’s Mary doin'?” “Oh! oo’s about th’ butter.”From the entry about
  • Put some run butter on the vegetables.From the entry run
  • The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.From the entry stick
  • Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.From the entry stiff
  • Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.From the entry dairy
  • I melted butter to make a cake.From the entry melt
  • Now the cream is churned to make butter.From the entry churn
  • This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour.From the entry part
  • Mount the sauce with one tablespoon of butter.From the entry mount
  • He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss.From the entry butter up
  • Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.From the entry soften
  • The butter softened as it warmed up.From the entry soften
  • Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.From the entry contaminate
  • She's our butter queen, our dandy Jersey, Mary Ann.From the entry jersey
  • She likes eating peanut butter on toast.From the entry peanut butter
  • Even if you like peanut butter sandwiches, eating the same sandwiches day in, day out will get old.From the entry day in, day out
  • Let me throw this out there – how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?From the entry throw out
  • Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.From the entry dob
  • They will do some machining if you ask them, but sheet metal has always been their bread and butter.From the entry bread and butter
  • Can you tell the difference between margarine and butter?From the entry tell the difference
  • James used a spreader to butter her bagel.From the entry spreader
  • Guns and butter is a syndetic phrase.From the entry syndetic
  • A rumour is as hard to unspread as butter.From the entry unspread
  • Hearing you speak in Italian really melts my butter.From the entry melt someone's butter

Meaning of butter

  1. noun A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
  2. noun Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
  3. noun Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

Full definition of butter

Questions about butter in a sentence

How do you use butter in a sentence?
Butter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That landing was total butter!”
What is a short sentence with butter?
“Butter the toast.”
What does butter mean?
Butter means a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butter (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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