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gutter

[guht-er] / ˈgʌt ər /


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After installing gutters for Sears and growing frustrated with low product quality, he bought his first gutter machine in 1972 and founded the Senox Corp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde.

From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026

The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

Bondi did not face the survivors, instead replying: “I’m not going to get into the gutter with this woman doing theatrics.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

I did—except for Joe Pepitone’s cap because it’s lying in a gutter getting rained on, which you might remember if you cared.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

After installing gutters for Sears and growing frustrated with low product quality, he bought his first gutter machine in 1972 and founded the Senox Corp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hawaii's emergency management agency recommended residents clear gutters and drains and move valuables off the ground, seal gaps in doors and remove tree limbs that threaten their properties.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

A third contractor found hail damage across the entire roof and gutters and concluded both required replacement.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Flooding in Accra is exacerbated by a poor drainage system, including clogged gutters and the construction of illegal structures on waterways.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

“The Gestapo says their Führer has more need of them than an old woman walking in gutters running with the rain.”

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Down a long slope, the Columbia River guttered below.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

In her third round, a ball guttered on the left side for a change.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

“Y’know, basic things like in Chicago, the weather gets cold. It snows. The snow falls off the roof. Don’t design a slopping roof where the snow can’t be caught or guttered off somewhere.”

From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2017

Many of today’s punks grew up in the halcyon nineties, when the flame of the culture had guttered out.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2017

As the candles guttered out and were replaced with new, Madam and Lady Seymour retired to their bedchambers and Lockton’s business companions left to play billiards at the King’s Head tavern.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The insurer told her the hail damage—to guttering and copper on the roof—tallied just $2,000, well below her policy’s deductible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

And it’s still a rite of passage among Bardstown teens to see how far across the under-city you and your friends can get with your guttering Bic lighters and your courage.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Clouds of incense, guttering candles: Inside Lviv’s garrison church, singer Vasyl Hnypyuk’s high baritone rose and fell in cadence, supplementing the chanting of presiding priests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Mouse carcasses and excrement in roof guttering are polluting farmers’ water tanks and causing sickness.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021

At least one assumed he had been watching the sky, there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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