How to Use butler in a Sentence

butler

noun
  • Does your suite have its own butler?
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Does your suite have its own butler?
    — Blane Bachelor, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Does your suite have its own butler?
    — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Does your suite have its own butler?
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Does your suite have its own butler?
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That’s right, the butler did it!
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a butler’s pantry steps away.
    — Sacbee.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Oh, and there's a butler at your beck and call.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The dining room gives way to butler’s pantry near the kitchen.
    — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 11 June 2017
  • Your private butler stands but a tablet-click away.
    — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In the kitchen, there’s a large butler’s pantry with storage and prep space.
    — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • All that’s missing is a butler.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 2 June 2026
  • The butler who steals the car is very elderly and bawdy.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • There is butler and valet service, and dining room and bar.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The gourmet kitchen has a butlers pantry and inside/outside bar.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
  • One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The kitchen has a butler’s pantry and wet bar and opens to a second living space.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2020
  • From the dining room, the eat-in kitchen can be reached through a butler’s pantry or main hall.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The kitchen, painted a bright teal, has a butler sink and a slew of brass details.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
  • Cameron Grimes as a butler has to wear a tuxedo with a bowtie and no dress suit.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • In the villas you get assigned your own butler and can have chefs come in to cook for you.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Sometimes the butler would even sleep in the pantry to keep the pieces safe from damage or theft.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
  • Gillespie is stunned, as is the short black butler who has just brought in a tray of lemonade.
    — Walter Mosley, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Cleto’s dad was the valet, the butler backstage.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Suites come with butlers who are happy to unpack for you, press your trousers, and bring snacks.
    — Amy Tara Koch, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2025
  • There is a wet bar off the nook, a butler’s pantry off the formal dining room and a wine room.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The gourmet kitchen is equipped with top-of-the-line appliances and a full butler’s kitchen.
    — Dallas Builders Association, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The pantrymen also did anything that the butlers did not have time to do.
    — John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Think of it as Luxe's answer to the hotel butler or concierge.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2019
  • Across the hall is a formal dining room with large windows and a butler’s pantry.
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020

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