butt in

Example Sentences

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Some of these contenders want to sit in the Oval Office, and there can be only one butt in the chair behind the Resolute Desk.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

"I'm going to butt in," Kagan said, cutting off Gore.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2023

Katie Hafner: So did he- do we have any idea whether it was his idea that she join him in the work or did she just want to .. butt in?

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

I liked poetry — poetry saved my butt in high school.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Playing in the street was discouraged and often forbidden and if you did manage to slip out, “Get your butt in this house before dark,” she would warn, a rule she enforced to the bone.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride