How to Use butterfly in a Sentence

butterfly

1 of 2 noun

• They competed in the butterfly.
• The butterfly rash is a facial rash that blooms across the cheeks and nose.
  — Sara Coughlin, Health, 17 May 2023
• The singing style in the album matches the oriental charm of the moon and the butterfly.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2023
• In other words, don’t kill a butterfly or moth to send it in.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 6 Aug. 2023
• Instead, tend to your garden and the butterflies will come.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Next, wrap the ribbon around the center of the wings for the body, punch a hole close to the center top of the wings, and attach the butterfly to the card using a brad.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2023
• Visitors will be able to feed the butterflies and learn about their role in the ecosystem.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Hot glue the butterflies to cut branches and arrange them on the table.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
• The plaque is engraved with the star’s full name (Anne Celeste Heche), her birth and death years and an image of a butterfly.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• It’s made of 18-karat gold and three mother-of-pearl hearts that’s shaped into butterfly wings.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
• Secure the small butterfly on top of the large butterfly.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2023
• After the attack, Yam’s aunt got the same butterfly tattoo as her niece.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Note: Don’t go trapping and killing butterflies or moths.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• One fact about Dua Lipa is that she *loves* butterflies.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 12 July 2023
• The two then do the butterfly breath technique together.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
• When that chrysalis cracks open, there is the colorful, winged creature that delights us so much—the butterfly.
  — TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
• Decorative cutouts of an elephant and a butterfly were on the wall.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Smith wore a rainbow vest and jeans for the event, while Zada rocked a flower-print crop top and matching butterfly hair clips.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• On one piece, butterflies frame a woman with long flowing hair.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Valley of Butterflies is a serene park with streams, ponds, paved paths, and a stunning display of butterflies.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
• On the beach, Mimi’s fist held a taut white string, on the other end of which a cobalt blue butterfly with lemon yellow streamers fluttered in the sea breeze.
  — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
• Similar cases can be found in more than 70 species of moth and butterfly.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• Always thinking of you Big Momma… and looking out for all the butterflies.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
• A lot of people call her mariposa, which is ‘butterfly’ in Spanish.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2023
• The paintings—one red and one blue and titled Summer of Love and Love and Hate—detail the artist’s signature butterflies and transform the room.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2023
• One of those butterfly moments will come when the trio kicks off their tour at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 12.
  — Sian Watson, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
• Steinfeld, 27, put on a show by throwing up her butterfly sleeves for the cameras.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• But now the cocoon has hatched and the butterfly of the story, with a magical flick of its wings, has shaken off the webs of years of forgetfulness.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Kelley has brown hair, blue eyes and a butterfly tattoo on her left forearm, the advisory said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• Caterpillars are cute and butterflies are beautiful, but nobody wants to hang out with a pupa.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024

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butterfly

2 of 2 verb

• Butterfly the chicken before roasting.
• How to butterfly a steak Lay the flank steak flat on a cutting board.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 10 Apr. 2020
• Butchers hand-cut and butterfly the ribeyes into the shape of a heart.
  — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2023
• Slice pork tenderloin lengthwise to butterfly it, but don’t quite slice all the way through: The 2 pieces should remain attached.
  — Melissa Clark, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2017
• Select a small tenderloin — about 1 pound — and use a sharp knife to butterfly it open to an even thickness that will cook in about 7 minutes.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
• To butterfly a large chicken breast half, put it on a cutting board with the thickest portion facing your sharp knife.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• From low-rise jeans to butterfly motifs to rimless shades, the early aughts have officially had a stylish comeback.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• Learn how to handle raw chicken with this step-by-step guide to butterflying boneless, skinless, chicken breast.
  — Country Living, 21 Sep. 2010
• When Jacobsen transformed the specimen from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly with a flick of her wrists, Charlotte hopped as if about to take flight herself.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2021
• In another week or so, the pupa inside completes its metamorphosis to butterfly, emerging in search of food and a mate.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 8 June 2020
• Like her bestie and fellow vintage queen Bella Hadid, Devon is known for her ‘90s and y2k-inspired looks, from low-rise micro mini skirts to butterfly tops, and her latest knit look is no exception.
  — Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 21 July 2022
• Despite its legendary sharp teeth, black piranha is a meaty fish that’s usually caught by hand line and prepared by carefully butterflying and roasting over a fire.
  — National Geographic, 20 May 2020
• Spatchcocked chicken with fig glaze Serves 4 Also known as butterflying the bird, spatchcocking involves removing the chicken’s backbone with a pair of kitchen shears, and then flattening it before sliding it onto a hot grill.
  — sacbee, 13 June 2017
• But Wise thinks butterflies are a better example of how nature deviates from our Western norms because of their many transformations, from caterpillar to a kind of goo inside a chrysalis to butterfly.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Madeline Champagne, an amateur lepidopterist — someone who studies moths and butterflies — said monarchs have a short life cycle, going from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly in about four weeks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Other butterflies rely on a single host plant for survival as well, such as zebra swallowtail butterflies and paw paw trees, and spicebush swallowtail butterflies on spicebush shrubs.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• His son Bryan Babcock took over in the early 1980s and remains at the helm like a mad scientist of sorts, exploring everything from new trellising systems and psychedelic-pink pet nats to butterfly sanctuaries and new oak tree habitats.
  — Matt Kettmann, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2020
• But the more famous kind of metamorphosis is more total—that quintessential transmogrification from a caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• Civic science initiatives, also known as citizen science initiatives, assist with everything from water quality monitors to butterfly counts.
  — Lucy Bernholz, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2022
• The team set up spatial learning experiments in Heliconius butterflies over three different spatial scales, each representing ecologically-relevant behaviors.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2023
• Butterfly the chicken before roasting.
• How to butterfly a steak Lay the flank steak flat on a cutting board.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 10 Apr. 2020
• Butchers hand-cut and butterfly the ribeyes into the shape of a heart.
  — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2023
• Slice pork tenderloin lengthwise to butterfly it, but don’t quite slice all the way through: The 2 pieces should remain attached.
  — Melissa Clark, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2017
• Select a small tenderloin — about 1 pound — and use a sharp knife to butterfly it open to an even thickness that will cook in about 7 minutes.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
• To butterfly a large chicken breast half, put it on a cutting board with the thickest portion facing your sharp knife.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• From low-rise jeans to butterfly motifs to rimless shades, the early aughts have officially had a stylish comeback.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• Learn how to handle raw chicken with this step-by-step guide to butterflying boneless, skinless, chicken breast.
  — Country Living, 21 Sep. 2010
• When Jacobsen transformed the specimen from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly with a flick of her wrists, Charlotte hopped as if about to take flight herself.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2021
• In another week or so, the pupa inside completes its metamorphosis to butterfly, emerging in search of food and a mate.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 8 June 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024