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    Use "butler" in a sentence

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    butler


    1. The old man had a rabbit as a butler, except the rabbit stood on two legs, twitching his whiskers in his little butler outfit


    2. At first, Julia was most pleased with having her own personal butler, and she considered it a bonus that this butler was a close friend of hers too


    3. There came a gentle flow of soothing explanation from the butler


    4. Before the butler had delivered his message to me, I had pushed past him and was in the room


    5. He motioned to the chief butler, who promptly pulled a black chord to signal the kitchen that their guests were ready


    6. She remembered how the butler had answered the door


    7. "What larks!" "Is it a joke?" "Betty, you're the handsomest butler!"


    8. It was a jolly Christmas dinner, with the "butler" eating with the


    9. “The Flag Follows the Dollar” was an argument most famously advance by Marine Corp Commandant Smedley Butler that American invasions and ordered overthrows were because there were US companies out to make money off Latin Americans


    10. Butler continued his angry denunciation: “The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag

    11. ” Later Butler got his chance to stop bankers and protect the Bill of Rights, when some of Wall Street's elites tried to overthrow Roosevelt with a private army and set up a fascist state


    12. Smedley Butler was, in the larger view, mostly wrong


    13. Shaw,” the butler said, stopping at the edge of the room


    14. At the front door, the butler bid me farewell—as in, the actual words, “Farewell, madam”—and extended a pair of sunglasses


    15. The butler opened the doors then, and Dorian pressed a brief kiss on my cheek and was gone


    16. But the butler and the housekeeper and the event planner have been having fits for days, so it’s got to be impressive,” she said with barely contained excitement


    17. The butler must have heard us up and about


    18. The butler handed the case over to another servant


    19. Jackson also sent an agent, Anthony Butler, to Mexico to try to buy Texas


    20. Butler tried to bribe Mexican officials, and suspicions that began under Jackson would play a part eventually leading to the US-Mexico War

    21. The plot was exposed by General Smedley Butler, former Commandant of the US Marine Corps


    22. Butler was approached by Gerald Maguire, who offered him command of an army of half a million World War I veterans from the American Legion


    23. When Butler was offered command of this army, he refused and went to Roosevelt with the details of the plot


    24. I’m the butler, sir, and little more than that


    25. I am Hermann, butler to the Countess


    26. The butler announced, “Gentlemen


    27. The butler showed Colling the stables where he was able to park the pickup


    28. Refusing to let Hermann carry his luggage, Colling followed the butler to a bedroom on the second floor


    29. Krazinsky, the Countess is gravely ill with a malignancy,” said the butler


    30. Before leaving, Colling asked Hermann if there were a pair of binoculars in the house, and the butler obligingly went off and returned with a large leather case

    31. Let me show you,” said the butler, indicating that Colling should follow him


    32. “Sorry, Madame,” replied the butler, while Helga dropped what she was doing and went to the stove, saying that there was soup and stew cooking


    33. Colling found the butler in the kitchen, stirring a steaming pot on the big wood stove


    34. He found the butler decorating a tree that had been set up in a large room across the entrance foyer from the library


    35. “Come with me,” said the butler


    36. The butler led him past the parked Ford truck to the end of the building, to where what was obviously a car was hidden under a piece of lightweight canvas


    37. Colling gave what the butler had said some thought before answering


    38. One day, as Colling watched the butler working on the vehicle, he commented on Hermann’s mechanical ability, and Hermann told him a little of his personal history


    39. He had started as chauffeur, with his duties including repair and maintenance of the Count’s three autos, and then after a time, he was taken into the house and instructed as a butler


    40. The butler said he had never done so when driving the Count and Madame, and was unsure of what roads to take

    41. Do any of you deny that you were at her estate only a few days ago?” His eye caught Hermann, and he stepped over and took him by the arm, pulling him forward, “And you, my friend, are the Countess’ butler, and that woman there is your wife and maid to the Countess


    42. Colling looked at Hermann and caught a barely perceptible shrug of the man’s shoulders, which together with the sheepish expression on his face, told him that the butler might know where the coins were


    43. With its discovery, Marsh and Butler, at Berkeley, California went back over their decade-long collection of search data, and when they expanded their ideas about orbits, size, and composition, they found several planets they overlooked hidden in their trove


    44. For the second time in a week, I was disappointed to ring the doorbell of a mansion and have the expected butler be conspicuous by his absence


    45. The butler was the first to tell Joseph his dream, he would not, in fact, have usually


    46. ” We are being moved toward the condition in which, as the poet William Butler Yeats predicted, “the center cannot hold


    47. 3 And the butler took wine and placed it before the king to drink, and the baker placed bread before the king to eat, and the king drank of the wine and ate of the bread, he and his servants and ministers that ate at the king's table


    48. 4 And while they were eating and drinking, the butler and the baker remained there, and Pharaoh's ministers found many flies in the wine, which the butler had brought, and stones of nitre were found in the baker's bread


    49. 8 And the butler related his dream to Joseph, and he said, I saw in my dream, and note a large vine was before me, and on that vine I saw three branches, and the vine speedily blossomed and reached a great height, and its clusters were ripened and became grapes


    50. 19 And the butler, to whom Joseph had interpreted his dream, forgot Joseph, and he did not mention him to the king as he had promised, for this thing was from the Lord in order to punish Joseph because he had trusted in man














































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    Synonyms for "butler"

    butler pantryman samuel butler steward valet

    "butler" definitions

    a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table


    English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)


    English poet (1612-1680)