- present participle of gut.
gutting
Example Sentences
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In “Tin Can Coast,” Joseph Ogilvy explores the poetry and the beauty of this coastal world, the marine creatures who live within it, as well as the practices that are gutting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” she told NOTUS.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
“I know intimately how gutting it is to be a borrower, just sitting on the phone with a loan servicer as you try to navigate your options,” she said.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Mrs. Boatwright was walking up and down, showing Lyra to the people who were just waking, and someone else was attending to the chicken, gutting it and jointing it and sprinkling it with flour.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
