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How do you use Butterfingers in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Butterfingers in a sentence

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Butterfingers | Butterfinger | Butterfingered

Butterfingers meaning

  1. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
  2. One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
  3. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

Synonyms of Butterfingers

clumsy person

Related words

Other words often associated with Butterfingers or its synonyms:

individual somebody person soul someone mortal

Using Butterfingers

  • The main meaning on this page is: Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. | One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. | A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.
  • Useful related words include: clumsy person.

Context around Butterfingers

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 1 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Often after:

irving 1×

Sentence patterns with Butterfingers

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and butterfingers irving gunned 1× from your butterfingers to the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and butterfingers irving 1× when your phone 1×

Common sentence endings:

gunned himself down 1× to prevent cracking 1×

Words around Butterfingers

Just before it in the word index:

butterfingered 2 butterfinger 6 butterfield 94 butterfat 13 buttered 47 buttercups 3

Just after it in the word index:

butterfish 3 butterflied 2 butterflies 314 butterfly 522 butterfree 7 butterick 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aabc 5 aacr 5 aacsb 5 aadar 5 aadk 5 aadvantage 5

Corpus analysis for Butterfingers

  • In this selection, "butterfingers" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, irving stand out and add context to how "butterfingers" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and butterfingers irving gunned and from your butterfingers to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "butterfingers" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with butterfingers

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

And butterfingers Irving gunned himself down! (6 words)

When your phone meets any sort of impact, whether from a bump against a hard wall or a drop from your butterfingers to the concrete sidewalk, the thickness and hardness of glass screen protectors are designed to absorb the impact to prevent cracking. (43 words)

Longer example sentences

When your phone meets any sort of impact, whether from a bump against a hard wall or a drop from your butterfingers to the concrete sidewalk, the thickness and hardness of glass screen protectors are designed to absorb the impact to prevent cracking. (43 words)

And butterfingers Irving gunned himself down! (6 words)

Exclamation examples

And butterfingers Irving gunned himself down! (6 words)

Example sentences (2)

When your phone meets any sort of impact, whether from a bump against a hard wall or a drop from your butterfingers to the concrete sidewalk, the thickness and hardness of glass screen protectors are designed to absorb the impact to prevent cracking.

And butterfingers Irving gunned himself down!

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "butterfingers" in a sentence?
An example: "When your phone meets any sort of impact, whether from a bump against a hard wall or a drop from your butterfingers to the concrete sidewalk, the thickness and hardness of glass screen protectors are designed to absorb the impact to prevent cracking." This page contains 2 example sentences with the word "butterfingers" from authentic English texts.
What does "butterfingers" mean?
Butterfingers means: Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
What are synonyms of "butterfingers"?
Common synonyms of "butterfingers" include: clumsy person.
How many example sentences with "butterfingers" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 2 example sentences with "butterfingers", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.