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butterfly

[ US /ˈbətɝˌfɫaɪ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌtəflˌa‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
  2. a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
VERB
  1. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
    My husband never flirts with other women
    The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
  2. flutter like a butterfly
  3. cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
    butterflied shrimp

How To Use butterfly In A Sentence

  • Ladies in Blue," a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the "Iron Butterfly," as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
  • Closely related to each other, this kind of photography will show such things as the development of a flower, or the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.
  • I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
  • A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
  • In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley.
  • The button utters in mutter, "The butterfly likes the buttered earthnut/ peanut.
  • He won the 100m backstroke and freestyle on day one, and followed up by winning the 100m butterfly on day two.
  • She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
  • Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali 
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