Example sentences for: butch

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

  • But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both "order" and "the west."

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • "They're much too butch."

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


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