Dictionary Entry

but

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/bʊt/Used In Literature ↓

An instance or example of using the word "but".

In a Sentence

“It has to be done – no ifs or buts.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “but”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But when the snows at Christmas
On Bredon top were strown,

What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow,
But never as good as new.

Good people, come and pray."
But here my love would stay.

But what should you go for, oh, snowman, oh, snowman?
And why would you leave us, when home lies at hand?

— Ah, life, what is it but a fower?
Why must true lovers sigh?

But if I front the evening sky
Silent on the west look I,

And I shall die to-morrow;
But you will die to-day.

And common the blanket and cheap;
But there he will lie as they laid him:
Where else could you trust him to sleep?

May will be fine next year as like as not:
Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

Why, I was coming ’ome.
I’d ’a been yere before, but I lost my way,
Got buried in the snow. Then I ’eard you