Sentence examples for butts up from inspiring English sources

She picks at the places where language butts up against the inexpressible.

The prisoner had a habit of picking cigarette butts up off the floor, but not of showering.

Still, when it butts up against the street footage, its artificiality is too present, and it starts to seem like story time, even if the tales are nightmarish.

Those things were fired up in the winter time and the person that was sitting on top of them burned their butts up and those individuals sitting in the far corners had to sit with their coats.

Epic Steam is big, burly, hot-tempered and as black as night, and you can feel the resistance in him whenever he butts up against an obstacle to his freedom.

During one of these fights, behavioral ecologist Michael Caldwell of Boston University (BU) observed an odd performance: the frogs briskly wiggling their butts up and down.

Everywhere I butted up against indifference.

"Are people still going to butt up against local interests?

Preservation and access are going to butt up against each other all the time".

But Raisin is butting up against a couple of generations of Scottish writers.

A little repression might be good for artists, giving them something to butt up against.