“I liked the man for his own ⟳ sake, and even had he promised to turn ⟳ out a celebrity it would have ⟳ had no weight with me. I look ⟳ upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.”

“Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.”

“April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep ⟳ out the wind.”

“Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.”

“Click the button that looks like ⟳ a house to return ⟳ to your browser's home page.”

“The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote ⟳ Smart" emblazoned on it.”

“O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,”

“Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end ⟳ or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.”

“In attempting to touch ⟳ down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.”

“The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach ⟳ showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.”

“It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let ⟳ us know ⟳ / That this is not a test ⟳”

“'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch ⟳, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'”

“As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear ⟳ about Betty, and now her name ⟳ was barely mentioned.”

“One thing you definitely don't want ⟳ to do is write ⟳ past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run ⟳ something like ⟳ this: TONY: That kind of talk ⟳ is exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound ⟳ something like ⟳ this: TONY: That kind of talk ⟳ is exactly what I'm talking about. CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye. TONY: Bye.”

“Scenes usually go out on a laugh ⟳ line, a stinger or a button. End ⟳ your script with a twist ⟳!”

“With our show ⟳, one thing we wanted to do was give ⟳ our best effort to always put ⟳ a button on the scene.”

“Is there a best way to end ⟳ a comedy sketch ⟳? Endings — or outs, or buttons as writers call ⟳ them — are notoriously difficult to nail. The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it.”

“FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember ⟳ when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.”

“Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have ⟳ had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last ⟳ rattle, even though the string may not be complete ⟳, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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