How to Use bread-and-butter in a Sentence
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But rewatching is the bread-and-butter of younger kids TV.
— Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023 -
But they’re also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF’s work: solving gun crimes.
— Ryan Lucas, NPR, 26 June 2024 -
The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
— Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Black said VanDyke had little appetite for the bread-and-butter state court cases that came with the job.
— Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Monken was not about to use any of his bread-and-butter looks in a meaningless contest.
— Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023 -
With their bread-and-butter watches, Google and Samsung arguably changed the look and feel of their watches this year less than Apple.
— Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Anti-lock brakes are optional on all DXs and on the bread-and-butter fourcylinder LX.
— Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023 -
The issue occupies a key nexus where the bread-and-butter concerns of workers meet the larger goals of social justice.
— Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024 -
This bold new version of fried bologna uses Creole mustard and bread-and-butter pickle chips.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023 -
And his best routes, flare screens and intermediate digs, are the bread-and-butter concepts of a Shanahan offense.
— Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024 -
Some people may have viewed this as a one-off type of thing as opposed to working with a local guy who's going to be here and is going to be their bread-and-butter.
— Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023 -
This could impact Intel’s bread-and-butter CPU business.
— Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 -
And because the return-to-office debate is still going strong, the office buildings and such that lots of local banks fund as their bread-and-butter are worth less.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024 -
As Luisa aptly points out: The rise in alt exec ownership is, of course, in part due to the stunning returns alt firms have made in their bread-and-butter businesses over the past 25 years.
— Anne Sraders, Fortune, 17 July 2023 -
Regional banks are facing the prospect of a slowdown in one of their bread-and-butter offerings, business lending.
— Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023 -
Sellers said Harris should make sure to focus on bread-and-butter issues like medical debt.
— Chris Megerian, The Denver Post, 30 July 2024 -
Of bigger concern was their success against Harrison’s bread-and-butter four-seam fastball.
— Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024 -
There might be pressure on you to allocate money to unproven generative AI projects, and that means squeezing money out of the bread-and-butter tech budget.
— R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 -
But the shipyard recently launched a vessel that’s very different from its bread-and-butter designs—a series of superyachts.
— Christopher King, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2024 -
Levying upon bank accounts is perhaps the most bread-and-butter aspect of judgment enforcement, not to mention very likely the most common.
— Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 -
Jones totaled 17 carries over the last two seasons, but the majority was attacking the perimeter on jet sweeps and reverses, not bread-and-butter running back plays.
— Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024 -
The store plans to expand its hours, building off what has thus far been its bread-and-butter: speaking events, including one last week with local author Lauren Markham, who is promoting a new book.
— Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024 -
As their name suggests, Full Circle’s bread-and-butter is restoring run-down historic properties to their full potential, and the show focuses on the house and its history.
— Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023 -
In a speech later in the day to a supportive labor group in Washington, Mr. Biden focused more on bread-and-butter issues, boasting of his record of creating jobs and financing new roads and bridges.
— Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023 -
The collection crescendoed passionately into the evening with Saab’s bread-and-butter va-va-voom silhouettes.
— Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023 -
Women’s magazines did and still do provide more journalism than just fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice, but this sort of content was bread-and-butter for so many.
— Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023 -
Stephenson’s bread-and-butter is analyzing hotel occupancy data to get a sense as to whether the events put more heads in beds than what’s typically seen.
— Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024 -
There in the Rust Belt, practical, bread-and-butter policies that help put food on the table tend to matter more than the identity politics and culture wars over which the two parties frequently bicker.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The union is focusing on bread-and-butter issues such as pay and benefits as well as pushing for measures that protect workers from changes brought about by new technology.
— Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023 -
For most of them, rationalizing our immigration system is not a bread-and-butter issue.
— Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
- Casual clothing has always been the company's bread and butter.
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These fringe mushers are the bread and butter of the Yukon Quest, or used to be.
— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022 -
That had been their bread and butter for most of the season.
— Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2019 -
But the other side to that is that that’s still their bread and butter.
— Vulture, 14 July 2023 -
Still, the waiter returned to push the bread and butter.
— Noah Lederman, Bon Appétit, 9 June 2022 -
Sight gags like that are Life in the Dreamhouse’s bread and butter.
— Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 -
And live albums are like the bread and butter of the Gospel/worship genre.
— Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024 -
Sampling has been your bread and butter from the start.
— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2024 -
The macabre genre has become the grim bread and butter of Netflix over the last half-decade.
— Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021 -
While meat may be their bread and butter, farm life isn’t cheap.
— Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019 -
The Texas factory will make the classic bag styles that form the bread and butter of the brand.
— Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019 -
In the near term, the F-Series will continue to be the bread and butter of Ford.
— Phoebe Wall Howard, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018 -
The Pacers had 0 points off turnovers, which is their bread and butter.
— J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2021 -
Last online match of the year was a success, now back to our bread and butter for the Lans!
— Sean Collins, Dallas News, 25 July 2021 -
The song has a hip-hop beat and is full of the insults and cheeky humor that are Blink-182’s bread and butter.
— Melissa Fossum, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019 -
The twinkling eyes, the aquiline nose, the trademark goatee limned in bits of bread and butter.
— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022 -
Politicians will force you to choose—that’s their bread and butter.
— Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Consider this work boot to be the bread and butter of men’s work boots.
— John Thompson, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022 -
The Browns pass rush is their bread and butter and the Colts offensive line is one of their strengths.
— Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020 -
The kind of search queries that Berlinquette used are a campaign’s bread and butter.
— Gilad Edelman, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020 -
Trade deals were supposed to be Trump’s bread and butter.
— Philip Bump, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018 -
But 40 years in, up-and-coming groups remain the show’s bread and butter.
— Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023 -
That’s why Schumer’s solo moments are the bread and butter of this movie.
— Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2018 -
The internet has been the bread and butter of your career.
— Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021 -
While plays are her bread and butter, the novel is calling to her.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Zoë Kravitz surely isn’t ready to hang up the sheer looks that have become the bread and butter of her wardrobe.
— Alice Newbold, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024 -
So start with that house bread and butter that's speckled with sea salt ($7).
— Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018 -
Serve the stew with plenty of dark country bread and butter.
— Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023 -
Popcorn has been the bread and butter at Tanger, and the Dots have been the better seller so far in Cheshire.
— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2024 -
Space launches might be the company’s bread and butter, but pulling off a successful landing would be something else entirely.
— Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
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