How to Use butch in a Sentence
butch
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One of the dads, Wayne Maines, for example, ticks nearly every box of that butch stereotype.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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An exploration of femme/butch lesbian dynamics?
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Quispe López,
Them.,
29 Aug. 2025
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Gershon’s Corky, lithe and tattooed, ended up being the stuff of butch lesbian dreams — which apparently held true offscreen as much as on.
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Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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Next year the more butch EX60 Cross Country model will arrive for a different vibe.
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Joel Feder,
The Drive,
21 Jan. 2026
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There are still so few stories about butch women, transmasculine, genderqueer, or nonbinary bodies—the kind of bodies that have been called monstrous all our lives.
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Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Over the past 3 ½ years, the YouTube show has added some new characters, including Burrita’s mom and an on-and-off love interest, a butch lesbian wolf.
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Francisco Tijerina,
The Conversation,
24 July 2025
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Good was in a relationship with a woman, and her partner, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn’t your average white mother after all.
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M. Gessen,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.
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CBS News,
1 July 2026
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In addition to the co-star of I Saw the TV Glow, there’s also Margaret Cho (playing the hot older butch girlfriend to Haven’s more femme character), Dominique Jackson, Tomás Matos, Katy O’Brian, and more.
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James Factora,
Them.,
21 Oct. 2025
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