Gutter

//ˈɡʌt.ɚ//

"Gutter" in a Sentence (30 examples)

On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.

Before TV cameras, they emptied bottles of Bordeaux wine into the gutter - crying out slogans against the France that had rejected the war in Iraq.

Some good-for-nothing at this gutter paper here spread this mare's nest.

I dreamt that Congress effected sensible tax reform to improve the lot of the working class. I then woke up in a gutter with nothing but ragged clothes and a stolen guitar to my name.

Muiriel's mind is in the gutter.

Even the court enjoys an occasional roll in the gutter.

Get your mind out of the gutter!

When the lanes are dry like this, a curveball ends up in the gutter.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The parents of each child had a large wooden box in which grew herbs for kitchen use, and they had placed these boxes upon the gutter, so near that they almost touched each other.

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They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street

In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street.

Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water.

Meltwater gathered in the icy ruts of the unpaved road, the pressure wearing thin channels in the packed snow. Along the gutter the rivulets of spring runoff cut a course to the storm sewer

The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.

You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.

Nosei (Löwensohn): This is Tom and Cynthia Kruger. / Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright): I heard. / Nosei: This is Jean-Michel Basquiat. / Tom Kruger (Chuck Pfeiffer): Hi. / Nosei: You've seen the SAMO graffiti everywhere – that's his. This is the true voice of the gutter.

Get your mind out of the gutter.

What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.

Lord Darlington. No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]

Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.

A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.

The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,

The students' performance guttered after the school event.

The patient's state would soon gutter.

A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.

An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.

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