Sentence examples for butt end from inspiring English sources

Late September, the very butt end of the season.

Some portion of each spear's butt end is inedible.

We first encounter Robin in France, at the butt end of the twelfth century.

"I felt the butt end of a firearm on his waistband," Sergeant Brennan said.

"I felt like someone had hit me with the butt end of an axe," he said.

Shingle, thin piece of building material, usually with a butt end thicker than the other.

It caught the butt-end of my stick".

And now Sunnyside -- "our Blue coal corridor of butt-end Queens," to Mr. Bennett -- has its own bard.

That said, a smartly swung sharp blade makes for better literary blood sport than the butt-end bludgeonry McGinniss visits upon Palin and her husband, Todd.

And Thomas Pynchon, no less, somehow blended Chandler-esque noir with pastoral comedy in his tale of California at the butt-end of 1960s hippie idealism, Inherent Vice (Cape, £18.99).

We could, in fact, be watching nothing worse than the butt-end of a lousy week, or the winding down of an agrarian culture in one Eastern European backwater.