Example sentences for: butterfly

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

  • The position we settled on was "The Butterfly," which we had to read three times to comprehend.

  • Vacations were spent by the sea or in the mountains; people listened to soothing operas like Puccini’s La Bohème and Madame Butterfly; the first silent-movies of The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis were made; one could partake in intellectual conversations in open air cafés at the hour of the passeggiata.

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

  • A stamp, a photograph, a rubber band, a butterfly, marbles that had perhaps outlasted the lives of children they were made for ...

  • 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).


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