How to Use gutter in a Sentence

gutter

noun
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  • Cole's hat was in a gutter, his watch and gun spread on the ground.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
  • No, not that kind of gay stuff — get your head out of the gutter!
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Both sides of the road will have 5-foot-wide sidewalks and curb and gutter.
    — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the girls, 14 and 11, had torn pieces of a gutter off one of the buildings and shaped the pieces into weapons.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 27 May 2021
  • His roof and gutters had been clogged with ash and debris.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The cap from the bottle of Zafiro Anejo tumbles off the truck and into the gutter.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The world is full of folk whose taste was educated in the gutter.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • There would be a two-foot gutter, five-foot bike lane and 11-foot driving lane on the southbound side of the road.
    — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2021
  • Lesson: Get in the trenches with people but not down in the gutter with them.
    — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Check out our stories on the best leaf vacuums, the best paint sprayers, and the best gutter cleaners.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Tyre got out of the burning house through a window and hid a gun in a gutter, but was arrested.
    — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Thankfully, gutter clean-up shouldn’t be too much of a chore.
    — Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021
  • On the back side of the bladder, a gutter catches any escaping water and sends it away from the court.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
  • In true Bravo fashion, this will be their chance to rise above — or sink down into — the gutter.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Hands slink around doorways and sofas and emerge out of closets and gutters.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Clean your gutters and roof, which could give roaches an easy path into your home.
    — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 15 June 2023
  • Crowds poured Bordeaux wine down the gutter and burned French products in bonfires.
    — Hervé-Thomas Campangne, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Over the past five years, the group has traveled across the sprawling city of 9 million, saving bee colonies from trees, street gutters, and lamp posts.
    — Megan Janetsky, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
  • During the spring, Goble saw a young man splayed out in a gutter suffering from a head wound.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Great because: Feet in the gutter, heads in the stars, Mötley Crüe made danger sound super fun.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 July 2022
  • This Old World modern brick and stucco home boasts a tile roof, copper gutters and a unique steel front door.
    — Dallas Builders Association, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Lenander, 15, was found months later raped and strangled and her body dumped in a gutter, the Times report said.
    — Fox News, 15 July 2022
  • However, with Shopify’s stock in the gutter, is now a good time to buy the company?
    — Beth Kindig, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • That day in the field, Guerrero had finished a shift in gutter installation, where he's paid by the foot.
    — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Make sure gutters aren’t clogged as the standing water can attract bugs.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Ortiz lay in the gutter, shot in the head, a detective testified.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Get your mind out of the gutter, and get your tickets to Vulture Festival right this moment!
    — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Her uncle said a severed head appeared in the gutter outside his house.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Carrying a rusty-red foam, part of the flow diverted east along a gutter of Mount Vernon St.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Both are known to cause damages to a home's outside structures like roofs, windows, or gutters.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023

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