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Example sentences for "gutters"

Lexicographically close words:
gutted; gutter; gutteral; guttered; guttering; gutting; guttural; gutturals; gutty; guvnor
  1. Captain Bingham Wrynche gives vent to a long, piercing, dismal whistle, which so upsets a gaunt mongrel prowling vainly for garbage in the gutters of Market Square that he puts up his nose and howls in answer.

  2. For all the water from the house runs down the shiny tin gutters and down the pipe into a rain barrel at the bottom!

  3. The men made quite a lot of noise with their hammers, for they were putting new gutters around the eaves, and pounding upon tin makes a great deal of noise.

  4. But torrents of water poured down from the gutters quickly extinguished it.

  5. There were not less than four rows of palisades, consisting of trunks of trees set in the earth and leaning outward; and there was a kind of gallery well supplied with stones and provided with wooden gutters for quenching fire.

  6. The blue sky overhead was gray with the web of flying steel, the gutters of the streets ran red.

  7. The molten lead from the gutters fell on the straw within, where the wounded Germans were lying.

  8. The ill-paved and stinking gutters were filled with slime.

  9. Along these central gutters are turned streams of ceaselessly flowing water, keeping the city constantly clean.

  10. The condensed moisture upon the beams from so many breaths caused them to drip perpetually, till canvas gutters were fitted up, which carried off a gallon of water a day.

  11. All along the front bench run two wooden gutters 9 inches wide by 3 inches deep, the water in which is heated by a small conical boiler connected by two pieces of leaden pipe to the gutters.

  12. Three inches above the water in the gutters is placed the slate or flagging, (resting on cross slats of wood,) on which is two inches of sand.

  13. The floor of the galleries was cased with zinc, and fitted with gutters and escape-pipes, for the same reason.

  14. Care should also be taken to rinse and flush every broom which has worked away sediment and waste from the lower parts into and through the gutters and drains before applying it again to the clean upper parts.

  15. The clouds were rushing past a moon but faintly visible at short intervals, and the gutters were clogged with masses of half-melted snow.

  16. I shiftit at tea-time, for thae gutters mak' sic a dreedfu' mairter o' a body.

  17. With them they brought rugs, blankets, and loaves of bread, and from daybreak until night fell and the shells ceased to fall they sat in the hay-fields and along the grass gutters of the road.

  18. In gutters along the road and in the wheat-fields these brass shells flashed in the sunshine like tiny mirrors.

  19. The storm, which had already heaped the hollows of the road with snow, hurled its finely-granulated flakes against the building, but they were whirled along the gutters and ridges, and disappeared in smokelike puffs across the icy roof.

  20. And through the very gutters flows The mellowest Rhine wine.

  21. The councillors and aldermen Will drain the gutters bare.

  22. Who would pay any attention to attractions like his among the rare monsters that throng the bridges of the Golden Horn and display their deformities in the gutters of Stamboul?

  23. What lengths of such gutters should be provided?

  24. Ye little rin-there-out deil that ye are, what takes you raking through the gutters to see folk hangit?

  25. Why, down in the town there are beds made up in the streets, and the gutters are running over with food and money!

  26. The sun stood high in heaven and blazed in the winding side-streets so that the tarred timberwork sweated and the gutters stank; from the harbor came the sound of the crier, with his drum, crying herrings, and announcing an auction.

  27. WHEN YOU SPIT, spit in the gutters or into a spittoon.

  28. A fall of one foot in one hundred will be ample, even on grassy areas, and if the surface is that of a macadam road or the gutters of a drive, this grade may be cut in two.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gutters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.