Sentence examples for to gutter from inspiring English sources

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to gutter

noun

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

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But his flame began to gutter, and his life became more difficult.

Another step forward came with extendable ladders that could get you safely up to gutter height.

From the moment the opening credits start, my breath begins to gutter alarmingly.

But these glimmers of humor tend to gutter quickly, small candle flames smothered in the prevailing fog of misery.

Windsor issued a statement saying he refused to respond to "gutter journalism" and had referred the article to his lawyers.

"I have a philosophical question about the sea," he said, the candle inside his pumpkin head beginning to gutter.

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Deliberately, he went back to the gutter to feed the leper and to learn his name, Tulshiram.

Like the songs she sings, Ms. Carmello is high, low, classy and trashy in a single musical phrase, with a voice that skips from operatic trills to gutter-born groans and screeches.

There were many reports of roof shingles being blown off roofs and of damage to gutters.

Then it was time to return to the gutter and go watch the play.

Gutters were filled with rotting dead and men had come to the gutters to die, using the kerbstones as back-rests.

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