How to Use bread-and-butter in a Sentence

bread-and-butter

1 of 2 adjective
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  • But rewatching is the bread-and-butter of younger kids TV.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • But they’re also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF’s work: solving gun crimes.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
    — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Black said VanDyke had little appetite for the bread-and-butter state court cases that came with the job.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Monken was not about to use any of his bread-and-butter looks in a meaningless contest.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Anti-lock brakes are optional on all DXs and on the bread-and-butter fourcylinder LX.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
  • The issue occupies a key nexus where the bread-and-butter concerns of workers meet the larger goals of social justice.
    — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This bold new version of fried bologna uses Creole mustard and bread-and-butter pickle chips.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And his best routes, flare screens and intermediate digs, are the bread-and-butter concepts of a Shanahan offense.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Some people may have viewed this as a one-off type of thing as opposed to working with a local guy who's going to be here and is going to be their bread-and-butter.
    — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This could impact Intel’s bread-and-butter CPU business.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And because the return-to-office debate is still going strong, the office buildings and such that lots of local banks fund as their bread-and-butter are worth less.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • As Luisa aptly points out: The rise in alt exec ownership is, of course, in part due to the stunning returns alt firms have made in their bread-and-butter businesses over the past 25 years.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Regional banks are facing the prospect of a slowdown in one of their bread-and-butter offerings, business lending.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Sellers said Harris should make sure to focus on bread-and-butter issues like medical debt.
    — Chris Megerian, The Denver Post, 30 July 2024
  • Of bigger concern was their success against Harrison’s bread-and-butter four-seam fastball.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • But the shipyard recently launched a vessel that’s very different from its bread-and-butter designs—a series of superyachts.
    — Christopher King, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Levying upon bank accounts is perhaps the most bread-and-butter aspect of judgment enforcement, not to mention very likely the most common.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Jones totaled 17 carries over the last two seasons, but the majority was attacking the perimeter on jet sweeps and reverses, not bread-and-butter running back plays.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The store plans to expand its hours, building off what has thus far been its bread-and-butter: speaking events, including one last week with local author Lauren Markham, who is promoting a new book.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • As their name suggests, Full Circle’s bread-and-butter is restoring run-down historic properties to their full potential, and the show focuses on the house and its history.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In a speech later in the day to a supportive labor group in Washington, Mr. Biden focused more on bread-and-butter issues, boasting of his record of creating jobs and financing new roads and bridges.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The collection crescendoed passionately into the evening with Saab’s bread-and-butter va-va-voom silhouettes.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Women’s magazines did and still do provide more journalism than just fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice, but this sort of content was bread-and-butter for so many.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Stephenson’s bread-and-butter is analyzing hotel occupancy data to get a sense as to whether the events put more heads in beds than what’s typically seen.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • There in the Rust Belt, practical, bread-and-butter policies that help put food on the table tend to matter more than the identity politics and culture wars over which the two parties frequently bicker.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The union is focusing on bread-and-butter issues such as pay and benefits as well as pushing for measures that protect workers from changes brought about by new technology.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • For most of them, rationalizing our immigration system is not a bread-and-butter issue.
    — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Analysts say the reaction was overblown, and that European banks are still benefiting from rate rises and better profits from their bread-and-butter lending.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This bargain may not sit well with domestic constituencies in partner countries more concerned about bread-and-butter issues than geopolitics.
    — Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
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bread and butter

2 of 2 noun
  • Casual clothing has always been the company's bread and butter.
  • These fringe mushers are the bread and butter of the Yukon Quest, or used to be.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • That had been their bread and butter for most of the season.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2019
  • But the other side to that is that that’s still their bread and butter.
    — Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • Still, the waiter returned to push the bread and butter.
    — Noah Lederman, Bon Appétit, 9 June 2022
  • Sight gags like that are Life in the Dreamhouse’s bread and butter.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And live albums are like the bread and butter of the Gospel/worship genre.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Sampling has been your bread and butter from the start.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The macabre genre has become the grim bread and butter of Netflix over the last half-decade.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • While meat may be their bread and butter, farm life isn’t cheap.
    — Liz Tracy, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • The Texas factory will make the classic bag styles that form the bread and butter of the brand.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The Pacers had 0 points off turnovers, which is their bread and butter.
    — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Last online match of the year was a success, now back to our bread and butter for the Lans!
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 25 July 2021
  • The song has a hip-hop beat and is full of the insults and cheeky humor that are Blink-182’s bread and butter.
    — Melissa Fossum, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The twinkling eyes, the aquiline nose, the trademark goatee limned in bits of bread and butter.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Politicians will force you to choose—that’s their bread and butter.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Consider this work boot to be the bread and butter of men’s work boots.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The Browns pass rush is their bread and butter and the Colts offensive line is one of their strengths.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The kind of search queries that Berlinquette used are a campaign’s bread and butter.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But 40 years in, up-and-coming groups remain the show’s bread and butter.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The internet has been the bread and butter of your career.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
  • While plays are her bread and butter, the novel is calling to her.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Serve the stew with plenty of dark country bread and butter.
    — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Popcorn has been the bread and butter at Tanger, and the Dots have been the better seller so far in Cheshire.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2024
  • All those things are the bread and butter of good old-fashioned drama.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing against them -- that is still our bread and butter.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • For an offense with the skill like the Bengals have, the run game will never be their bread and butter.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Both stuck to their bread and butter, and Duncanville just did it better.
    — Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • That said, his bread and butter is his variety of chokes.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The same assortment of beverages was served in February, but the food changed slightly with madeleines, bread and butter on the menu.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024

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