Example sentences for: butch

How can you use “butch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His timbral combinations and unlikely harmonies surface in the work of avant-garde jazz composers Butch Morris and Franz Koglmann, as well as that of Maria Schneider, a composer and band leader who was Evans' assistant for three years before his death in 1988.

  • In their place is a lot of sub- Raiders of the Lost Ark swashbuckling, plus sight gags pilfered from Sam Raimi's 1993 Army of Darkness (the last of his The Evil Dead trilogy) and genre-deflating banter that's like an untalented sophomore's stab at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

  • The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.

  • "They're much too butch."

  • He felt the long rhinestone cigarette holder undercut his butch image.


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