How do you use the word "button" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "button": You have only to touch the button. Your second button is coming off.

Button Meaning

/ˈbʌtən/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

nounA mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

Sentence Examples

You have only to touch the button.

Your second button is coming off.

Just point the camera and press the button.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

push

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please press the red ____ to start the machine when you are ready.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

One ____ fell off my favorite shirt, so I need to sew it on again.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"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." — 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88:

"O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs," — c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6:

"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." — 1969, Federal Register, volume 34, numbers 125-134, page 11315:

"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." — 1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page 42:

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