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
Then she glanced with distaste at Nettle, and at last pointed along the street to where a pig was nosing around in the gutter.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
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
Grownups sat on the sidewalk and dangled their bare feet in the running gutters.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
Torch flames fluttered like pennons along the walls, and here and there the odd torch guttered out.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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
Slates and guttering were also torn from the house.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
I can hear it guttering, smell the wax, feel the chill of the air around my neck and shoulders.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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