How to Use butt out in a Sentence

butt out

verb

• Now, his message to Putin is to butt out of Ukraine’s affairs.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 27 May 2022
• Tap or click for steps to tell Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and others to butt out.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• Dear Miss Manners: Is there a nice way to ask people to butt out of a conversation?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• If the death is in your spouse’s family, butt out and focus on being supportive.
  — Mark A. Stein Rate.com, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Mary tells her that her stance on Christine won’t change and not so nicely tells Vanessa, who has been around as long as a house fly’s entire life span, to butt out of it.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• Finally, and most importantly, there are a million reasons to not kick your own butt out the door.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
• The result: a cruiser of a boat that tracks well while keeping your butt out of the water below (a detachable, inflatable seat also helps avoid this).
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 June 2022
• The infrastructure proposal seems to say: Consider getting your butt out of your car.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
• The impact could be severe, and the message to global bureaucrats unmistakable: butt out.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Surprisingly, Wendy decides to stand by Karen in that moment, going so far as to tell Robyn to take her head out of Gizelle’s posterior and butt out of the conversation.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 18 July 2021
• Bradley—crouched, head up, butt out, looking especially athletic—holds a basketball in both hands and off his right side, protecting it.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Novak told him to butt out, or he’d be arrested for interfering, Rode said, in an account the department hasn’t refuted.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
• If anything, mine was a bias that regulators should butt out of markets whenever possible.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
• Evolution blew the human butt out of proportion; our cultural norms quickly followed suit.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• Canadian officials asked the Americans to butt out of their domestic affairs.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024