Butte is an English word with synonyms like hill or town. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Butte in a sentence
Related words
Butte meaning
An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
Using Butte
- The main meaning on this page is: An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- Useful related words include: hill, town.
- In the example corpus, butte often appears in combinations such as: butte county, crested butte, in butte.
Context around Butte
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Butte
- In this selection, "butte" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, crested, eagle, spencer, county, friday and land stand out and add context to how "butte" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2012 the butte was entirely and and crested butte. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "butte" sits close to words such as abel, adjective and arvind, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with butte
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But the end of natural gas is on the horizon in Crested Butte. (13 words)
Nearby Powell Butte and Rocky Butte rise to 614 feet and 612 feet, respectively. (14 words)
Cathy Sposito died on June 13, 1987 while hiking Thumb Butte Trail in Prescott. (14 words)
In 1914, Butte, Montana erupted into a series of riots as miners dissatisfied with the Western Federation of Miners local at Butte formed a new union, and demanded that all miners join the new union, or be subject to beatings or worse. (42 words)
Although major water suppliers in other parts of the state, such as the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, have invested in efforts to bank water underground for times of drought, the concept has met with deep suspicion in Butte County. (41 words)
The following table lists some sports clubs in Eugene and their usual home venue: Parks and recreation Hendricks Park Spencer Butte Park at the southern edge of town provides access to Spencer Butte, a dominant feature of Eugene's skyline. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
BUTTE – The pipes, the pipes are calling in Butte as a popular pipe and drum band arrived in Butte Friday to kick off the St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
The 48-year-old arson suspect charged with starting the Park Fire in Butte County near the city of Chico was arrested Thursday morning and jailed without bail, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey.
And locally, another conservation easement was accomplished along the Woods Walk with the Crested Butte Land Trust that will keep part of the Crested Butte legacy alive for future generations.
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A mental health counselor from Butte has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid by billing the federal program for services that she did not provide.
Burial will be in Eagle Butte Cemetery under the direction of Luce Funeral Home of Eagle Butte.
Father Byrne served as Assistant at Immaculate Conception Parish in Butte, St. Joseph Parish in Harlowton, St. Joseph Parish in Libby, and St. Patrick Parish in Butte.
BUTTE – The Butte Rescue Mission this week purchased the property on East Platinum Street to be used as the site for its new homeless shelter.
The Mt. CB council then penciled in a joint work session for September 4 between Mt. Crested Butte and Crested Butte.
In 1914, Butte, Montana erupted into a series of riots as miners dissatisfied with the Western Federation of Miners local at Butte formed a new union, and demanded that all miners join the new union, or be subject to beatings or worse.
Nearby Powell Butte and Rocky Butte rise to 614 feet and 612 feet, respectively.
The following table lists some sports clubs in Eugene and their usual home venue: Parks and recreation Hendricks Park Spencer Butte Park at the southern edge of town provides access to Spencer Butte, a dominant feature of Eugene's skyline.
A little over a hundred years ago, Butte was a boomtown, ruled by copper and raging with prosperity.
Although major water suppliers in other parts of the state, such as the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, have invested in efforts to bank water underground for times of drought, the concept has met with deep suspicion in Butte County.
Battista arrived in Nevada where he learned to make charcoal, which he later transported to Butte to sell to blacksmiths.
But Butte of all places, was just really surprising and shocking, to me anyway,” she said.
But the end of natural gas is on the horizon in Crested Butte.
Cathy Sposito died on June 13, 1987 while hiking Thumb Butte Trail in Prescott.
Crested Butte has often struggled with the sprint events and the format opens with a qualifier race from which skiers are seeded for the knockout stages throughout the day with the top two advancing.
David said that before the Wellnitz Fire in 2012, the butte was entirely covered in pine trees.
Directions for the poker run out to the Iron Horse Pub in Lone Butte Saturday morning.
Common combinations with butte
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- butte county 45×
- crested butte 30×
- in butte 29×
- the butte 20×
- butte and 14×
- eagle butte 8×
- butte montana 7×
- picture butte 7×
- box butte 6×
- of butte 6×