Gutters can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| gutter - provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings" | ||
| gutter - wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil" | ||
| gutter - flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" | ||
| gutter - burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" | ||
Noun |
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| gutter - a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | ||
| gutter - a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | ||
| gutter - a tool for gutting fish | ||
| gutter - misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | noun | Tom fell off the ladder when he was cleaning out his gutters. | |
| 2. | noun | Tom collected rain water spilling over the side of his blocked gutters, for use later on his vegetable garden. | |
| 3. | noun | Cleaning out the rain gutters is never much fun. | |
| 4. | noun | Cleaning out the rain gutters wasn't much fun. | |
| 5. | noun | His career was in the gutter. | |
| 6. | noun | 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. | |
| 7. | noun | 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. | |
| 8. | noun | Some good-for-nothing at this gutter paper here spread this mare's nest. | |
| 9. | noun | 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. | |
| 10. | noun | Muiriel's mind is in the gutter. | |
| 11. | noun | Even the court enjoys an occasional roll in the gutter. | |
| 12. | noun | Get your mind out of the gutter! | |
| 13. | noun | When the lanes are dry like this, a curveball ends up in the gutter. | |
| 14. | noun | We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | |
| 15. | noun | 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. | |
| 16. | verb | Gutter the buildings. | |
| 17. | verb | The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| Tom fell off the ladder when he was cleaning out his gutters. | |
| Tom collected rain water spilling over the side of his blocked gutters, for use later on his vegetable garden. | |
| Cleaning out the rain gutters is never much fun. | |
| Cleaning out the rain gutters wasn't much fun. | |
| His career was in the gutter. |
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| 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. | |
| verb | |
| Gutter the buildings. |
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| The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground. |
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