butterfingers
Example Sentences
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The Rams would probably love to trade Akers and maybe Williams overall performance in this game — minus the butterfingers — showed them they can.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023
Should England lose out, they will have questions to answer over their cavalier first-innings declaration, the fitness of Moeen Ali's finger and Bairstow's butterfingers.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023
Jeudy may be a great route runner that consistently gets open, but those butterfingers are betraying those fantastic feet.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2020
Jeudy may be a great route runner that consistently gets open, but those butterfingers are betraying those fantastic feet.
From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2020
I must have looked confused because he told me, “That’s my horn, my ax, my saxophone, the thing I make all my money with, so don’t get butterfingers and drop it.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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