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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

Carbon says the drone had drifted slightly having lost the GPS signal and clipped the building's gutter on the way out.

From BBC ● May 6, 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

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

Then she tossed it across the street, where it rolled straight into the gutter.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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

Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a spate that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Down a long slope, the Columbia River guttered below.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 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

In Maggie Bofill’s domestic comedy “Winners,” co-produced by the Ensemble Studio Theater and the Radio Drama Network, the home fires have guttered.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015

One of the torches had guttered out, leaving only three.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

Pest controllers are not allowed to trap and kill grey squirrels living in guttering or roofs - but once they enter lofts or other rooms in a house they can be exterminated.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023

She pretended to tend to the guttering flames while Richard spoke to his mother, but it was impossible not to listen in.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland


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