Sentence examples for butt end of from inspiring English sources
Late September, the very butt end of the season.
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.
The butt end of the shaft was couched in a leather rest attached to the saddle.
In fact, James is at the butt end of his career.
It caught the butt-end of my stick".
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.
Wiemer hit Tucker with the butt-end of his stick, and was given an elbowing major and game misconduct in the Maple Leafs' 5-1 victoverover the Panthers.
No traveller in his or her right mind goes anywhere near Venice between the butt-end of May and mid-September, unless you want to see a pitched battle between tourists and mosquitoes to see how many of them can be crammed into a square inch, but then Venice has a wicked habit of nudging you out of your right mind into the wrong.
