How to Use bread-and-butter in a Sentence

bread-and-butter

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  • This could impact Intel’s bread-and-butter CPU business.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Analysts say the reaction was overblown, and that European banks are still benefiting from rate rises and better profits from their bread-and-butter lending.
    Margot Patrick, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This bargain may not sit well with domestic constituencies in partner countries more concerned about bread-and-butter issues than geopolitics.
    Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
  • Instead, the letter concerns bread-and-butter allegations of false statements signed under oath and tax violations.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • Such ideas were once the bread-and-butter of Republican establishment orthodoxy but have fallen out of a favor as the party has embraced Trump’s isolationist and populist views.
    Jill Colvin, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
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bread and butter

2 of 2 noun
  • Casual clothing has always been the company's bread and butter.
  • That said, his bread and butter is his variety of chokes.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Transfer to a plate and repeat with the remaining bread and butter.
    Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 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
  • When the feast, replete with Texas toast and bread and butter pickles, finds its way to our table, fingers and forks fly into action.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • But iPhone sales, long the company's bread and butter, declined 9 percent to just short of $7 billion.
    Natalie Jarvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019
  • And the bread and butter of democrats struggling to entrench liberal democracy in countries across Africa.
    John J Stremlau, Quartz Africa, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Achieving those goals could leave little room for fossil natural gas use in heating and cooking — the bread and butter of the gas company’s business.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The Gophers worked on further implementing the outside zone run scheme to complement their bread and butter of inside zone.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2019
  • For several years, consumer demand for the bread and butter of the industry—soda and beer—had been declining due to health concerns and dragged on the Ball’s shares.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Key Talking Point Keeping the ball and dominating football matches is City's bread and butter.
    SI.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • This wasn't a highly specialized procedure, but the bread and butter of orthopedic surgeons everywhere: fixing a bone fracture.
    Peter Rubin, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Yasmin’s bread and butter for this season has remained her complex interpersonal relationships.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • But 40 years in, up-and-coming groups remain the show’s bread and butter.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The internet has been the bread and butter of your career.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021

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