gutter

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

The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

The glass structure was set in the center, and the lead sloped slightly downward all around toward a gutter inside the parapet, with square drainage holes in the stone for rainwater.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

A third contractor found hail damage across the entire roof and gutters and concluded both required replacement.

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

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

The total cost for the siding, soffits, re-sheathing and gutters reached $85,000—well above Zemke’s $60,000 original budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

The gutters run with brownish water; the wooden bridge over the ravine is slippery and soft and has regained its smell of rot.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

The tent was empty, tawny and magnificent The wind wailed and the candles guttered.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman