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Buttered Sentence Examples

  • She turned on the broiler and buttered some bread.
  • Cynthia buttered her toast while Dean dribbled orange blossom honey on three leftover rolls from last night's supper.
  • If he had buttered up to her, it was merely to make his job easier.
  • He watched absently as Carmen buttered another piece of toast.
  • They can endure exposure without much apparent inconvenience; and though the nature of the food they use is such that they cannot stand absolute privation for any considerable length of time, they can exist for long periods on starvation rations, if eked out with weak soup or buttered tea, which is drunk at frequent intervals.
  • Parallels may be found in "Prairie oyster," the yolk of an egg with vinegar, pepper, &c. added; or "Scotch woodcock," a savoury of buttered eggs on anchovy toast.
  • Writing of the Tibetan he states: "As a beverage he drinks, all day long, cupfuls of, hot buttered tea, which is really a soup or broth made by boiling tea-leaves with rancid butter and balls of dough, and adding a little salt, and straining - a decoction which was invariably nasty to our taste, though no doubt it is wholesome; for it is not merely a stimulating hot drink in the cold, but overcomes the danger of drinking unboiled water in a country where the water supply is dangerously polluted."
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Also Mentioned In


  • unbuttered
  • nonbuttered
  • milk toast
  • scotch-pancake
  • parkerhouse roll
  • fairy-bread
  • smørrebrød
  • butty
  • bread-and-butter-pudding
  • butterbeer

Words near buttered in the dictionary


  • buttercup family
  • buttercup squash
  • buttercuplike
  • buttercups
  • buttered
  • buttered-up
  • butterer
  • butterers
  • Butterface
  • butterfaces

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