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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

My self-esteem was in the gutter, though you wouldn’t have known it from the outside.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 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

Indeed, everyone in Sennott’s LA throws around “I love yous” and air-kisses like chewing gum wrappers blowing into the gutter.

From Salon Nov. 2, 2025

She stood three steps from Lewis Powell as the soldier asked, “Do you know this man? And did you hire him to come and dig a gutter for you?”

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

It’s now the largest supplier of seamless gutters in Texas, employs around 350 people and had around $50 million in sales in 2021, according to the National Establishment Time Series database.

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

The second adjuster confirmed that the entire roof and gutters had sustained hail damage from the same storm the agent had inspected for.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

They also have to remove leaves, twigs and needles from gutters, and they already cannot keep exposed firewood in piles next to their house.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

They were made of wood, with lopsided porches, sagging roofs, rusted-out gutters, and balding tar paper or asphalt shingles slowly but surely parting from the underwall.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

His candle had guttered out in a pool of wax, but morning light was shining through the shutters of his window.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Under their cover she made her way alongside a path lit by little guttering flames.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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