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gutter

[guht-er] / ˈgʌt ər /


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Tradesmen she found online initially offered to fix her leaking gutter for £250.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

One might say “Beef” is in the gutter but looking at the stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

To a child born in the Cairo gutter, it was an impossible dream.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

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

Flooding in Accra is exacerbated by a poor drainage system, including clogged gutters and the construction of illegal structures on waterways.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

There was water everywhere, the gutters were overflowing into the streets.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

The candles guttered, and the fire burned low.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

One resident, 87-year-old Janet Roper said she has been left with "hideous" guttering inside her house, running into a bucket too heavy for her to lift when it was full.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2022

He led them through the guttering fires and the soot and ash of the riverfront, pounding down a long stone quay with his own men and Ser Balon's behind him.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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