Example sentences for: butterfly

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

  • I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).

  • There was this band called Iron Butterfly and this 18-minute song called "In A Gadda Da Vita" and that just seemed overweening.

  • The animal in hiding in pavilion is a butterfly, from Latin papilionem `butterfly.

  • Then a third player acts as arbiter and decides which one wins (in this case, a butterfly, because the butterfly flaps its wings and sets into a motion a chain of events that ends with Rupert Murdoch slipping on a banana peel and falling into a cement mixer).

  • Book -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt;


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