Sentence examples for as a gutter from inspiring English sources

The cache led officers to a man who worked as a gutter installer.

Eisner was more distrustful of show business; he remembered all too well when comics were regarded as a gutter medium.

Although The Amsterdam regularly wrote articles about Louis Farrakhan, the minister of the Nation of Islam, it repudiated him after he referred to Judaism as a "gutter religion".

In the past Mr Farrakhan, who is based in Chicago, has described Judaism as a "gutter" religion and Jews as "bloodsuckers".

"I think of Europe as a gutter of autumn leaves / choked like the thoughts in an old woman's throat": here is a triple metaphor, as a continent becomes a gutter and leaves become thoughts and thoughts clog the throat.

Although a lot of citizens in places like Breaux Bridge would have been hard put a few years ago to find anything good to say about a lot of mindless young people roaming the streets carrying beer cans, they now realize that beer is less inebriating than wine and that a gutter full of beer cans is not nearly as dangerous as a gutter full of broken glass.

Around its roof hung a gutter as wide as a human thigh.

"When I came in, we had the reputation as kind of a gutter team," the junior center Mark Arcobello said.

It's she who climbs the tall ladder and fastens the loose gutters in place, lifting her hammer into the blue sky as she plucks a gutter nail from between her teeth, while down on the grass I steady the ladder rails with both hands.

As we veered into a gutter, without breaking speed, it occurred to me that this would, at any rate, be a memorable way to die.

A STREET vendor from Mozambique, Emmanuel Sithole, lay begging for his life in a gutter as four men beat him and stabbed him in the heart with a long knife.