butch

Example Sentences

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"My sexuality has no bearing on whether I look girly, or whether I'm butch or whatever I present myself to be," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

They describe themselves as butch in appearance — short-cropped hair, button-down Oxfords.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

So, is it possible to butch up vegetables?

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

“I read ‘Stone Butch Blues’ when I was 17, and it was the first time I saw anything resembling butch identity.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Besides I shouted so las’ dight that I cudd’t talk butch eddy how!”

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott