How to Use butterfly in a Sentence

butterfly

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  • They competed in the butterfly.
  • The butterfly rash is a facial rash that blooms across the cheeks and nose.
    — Sara Coughlin, Health, 17 May 2023
  • The singing style in the album matches the oriental charm of the moon and the butterfly.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, don’t kill a butterfly or moth to send it in.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, tend to your garden and the butterflies will come.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Next, wrap the ribbon around the center of the wings for the body, punch a hole close to the center top of the wings, and attach the butterfly to the card using a brad.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2023
  • Visitors will be able to feed the butterflies and learn about their role in the ecosystem.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Hot glue the butterflies to cut branches and arrange them on the table.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The plaque is engraved with the star’s full name (Anne Celeste Heche), her birth and death years and an image of a butterfly.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • It’s made of 18-karat gold and three mother-of-pearl hearts that’s shaped into butterfly wings.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Secure the small butterfly on top of the large butterfly.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • After the attack, Yam’s aunt got the same butterfly tattoo as her niece.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Note: Don’t go trapping and killing butterflies or moths.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One fact about Dua Lipa is that she *loves* butterflies.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 12 July 2023
  • The two then do the butterfly breath technique together.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • When that chrysalis cracks open, there is the colorful, winged creature that delights us so much—the butterfly.
    — TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Decorative cutouts of an elephant and a butterfly were on the wall.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Smith wore a rainbow vest and jeans for the event, while Zada rocked a flower-print crop top and matching butterfly hair clips.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • On one piece, butterflies frame a woman with long flowing hair.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Valley of Butterflies is a serene park with streams, ponds, paved paths, and a stunning display of butterflies.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
  • On the beach, Mimi’s fist held a taut white string, on the other end of which a cobalt blue butterfly with lemon yellow streamers fluttered in the sea breeze.
    — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Similar cases can be found in more than 70 species of moth and butterfly.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Always thinking of you Big Momma… and looking out for all the butterflies.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of people call her mariposa, which is ‘butterfly’ in Spanish.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The paintings—one red and one blue and titled Summer of Love and Love and Hate—detail the artist’s signature butterflies and transform the room.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2023
  • One of those butterfly moments will come when the trio kicks off their tour at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 12.
    — Sian Watson, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Steinfeld, 27, put on a show by throwing up her butterfly sleeves for the cameras.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But now the cocoon has hatched and the butterfly of the story, with a magical flick of its wings, has shaken off the webs of years of forgetfulness.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But forest degradation and loss of habit impact far more than the butterflies.
    — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
  • From big bows to butterfly clips and fluffy eyelashes to shiny lipgloss, the stylists made their dream model-look happen.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023

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