How to Use butt out in a Sentence

butt out

verb
  • And don't toss butts out the window.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 5 May 2025
  • Now, his message to Putin is to butt out of Ukraine’s affairs.
    Greg Palkot, Fox News, 27 May 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
  • 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
  • Tap or click for steps to tell Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and others to butt out.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Evolution blew the human butt out of proportion; our cultural norms quickly followed suit.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 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
  • 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
  • Canadian officials asked the Americans to butt out of their domestic affairs.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 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
  • 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

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