gutting

Example Sentences

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“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

"As gutting as it is to miss another Slam, the advice is not to rush straight back into playing five set tennis on clay."

From BBC • Apr. 29, 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

There was a “violent gutting of the core of our economy,” says J.P.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

As I was thinking this I saw an old servant woman stooping over the same low table gutting a fish, looking at me from the corner of her eye.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan