gutter
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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
"The plants do not touch the ground. We use large industrial pipes split completely in half to form long, rounded gutter containers," Sequeira explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Recently Park spoke to the Times about the hardest parts of writing his new memoir, the importance of Project Blowed and taking his underground rap mentality with him from the gutter to the stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
He was always so neat and now his tuxedo jacket was dirty as though he had been lying in the gutter and his derby hat was bashed in.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Walters of Natchez, Miss., who left a career in computer science to pursue a more lucrative calling—manufacturing and installing seamless gutters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
The University of Plymouth's Cosmic Dust in the City project aims to "inspire curiosity" and encourage people to scour gutters and rooftops safely in the quest for micrometeorites.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Then there are some measures already required under previous wildfire regulations — such as removing dead vegetation like twigs and leaves, from the ground, roof and gutters — that are not under debate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
Paint flakes from the fibro and one of the gutters is rusting away The flyscreen has holes bitten into it.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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Down a long slope, the Columbia River guttered below.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
The markets, meanwhile, had guttered, Bear Stearns had folded in front of his eyes and, terrifyingly, the smartest people he knew had no idea what was going on.
From New York Times ● May 6, 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
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While the car’s Mood Modes include an accompanying soundtrack of thrumming, guttering performance sounds, I was happy to turn it off and rejoice in the well-wrought, hard-won quiet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Some buildings still have antique drainpipes and guttering - often an important design feature - which can overflow in heavy rain, sometimes damaging interiors as well as exteriors.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024
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
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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