How to Use gut in a Sentence

gut

1 of 3 noun
  • I didn't have the guts to do it.
  • That decision took a lot of guts.
  • Your gut will take it from there.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • So why does your gut feel strange?
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Blood and guts slipped all over the floor.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But that means less blood goes to your gut.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 15 June 2026
  • My gut doesn’t know what to do right now.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • When a push comes to shove … trust your gut.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
  • There was a fake chest that was filled with guts.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Your gut—and your body as a whole—will thank you.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This takes a lot of guts, Lind says.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This one was a gut punch very much on par with those.
    — Noah Trister, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2026
  • And so my gut instincts were right.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Her cells backed up the youthful gut.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026
  • Her cells backed up the youthful gut.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • Your gut does more than just digest food.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The real guts of it has to come from them.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2026
  • May not be the brightest, but has guts.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The state of our gut health matters, too.
    — Hadia Zainab, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But something in her gut told her to go ahead.
    — Jordan Greene, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • One of those reasons could be linked to your gut.
    — Rena Goldman, Health, 17 Feb. 2026
  • School dread should be filling your gut about now.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t be afraid to use your gut instinct.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • There were gut strings, then metallic strings.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And too many were met with gut-wrenching news.
    — Kamye Hugley, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The work was a gut punch for an old teacher like me.
    — Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But there was a feeling in his gut that this was it.
    — Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • It's been just gut-punch after gut-punch.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • So there's a lot of us that were very wrong and our guts were not right.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2026
  • For a team to beat them on their home court, that team has to have some guts.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026

gut

2 of 3 adjective
  • That was so gut-wrenching and yet beautiful and inspiring at the same time.
    — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 30 May 2017
  • The loss of friends, of comrades, of community, was gut-wrenching.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • That suggests their effects on the brain could, in part, be a result of their influence on gut flora).
    — The Economist, 19 Mar. 2018
  • That matters because the colon is where most gut bacteria activity takes place.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Usually these are meant to be gut organisms, which grow in your intestine and help with digestion.
    — Tara Smith, SELF, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But our decisions to conceal aren’t purely gut reactions.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Imagine now the gut feeling many Greeks must feel about the politics of this situation.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2018
  • There are few things more gut-wrenching than that slow-motion drop as your favorite palette tumbles towards the ground and its imminent demise.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Our decisions to conceal aren’t purely gut reactions.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • How could a film turn such a simple, unromantic word into one of the most gut-wrenching expressions of love ever to be uttered on screen?
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Changes in diet and stopping breastfeeding are factors that affect gut bacteria in children older than 4 years.
    — Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The use of explicit criteria to make decisions can reduce our dependence on gut reaction.
    — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In New York, there’s still interest, because gut renovation is already so costly.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
  • A week after one of the most gut-wrenching defeats of her career, Sinclair stepped on the field for a training session with the Portland Thorns.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive.com, 4 July 2019
  • That was just gut instinct, though; unlike me, Carreyrou actually began digging.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2018
  • Surprisingly, the most gut-wrenching moment of the episode actually happened before the beloved firefighter died.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Fan favorite Becca Kufrin — who found herself at the center of one of the most gut-wrenching Bachelor breakups of all time — has a second chance at love.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 26 May 2018
  • This shows that the gut allergic pathway is different from the whole-body allergic pathway and has its own chemical drivers, according to the researchers.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Rather, they are based on a combination of gut instinct and domestic political calculation.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 June 2018
  • Bariatric surgery actually increases the production of certain gut hormones that interact with the brain to reduce hunger and enhance feelings of fullness.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2017
  • When a child is inadvertently killed by battling swordsmen, his mother – danced by Kathleen Dahlhoff – lifts her child into her arms and cuts loose with a silent and gut-wrenching scream.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Padgett explained Monday that many of his decisions come from gut instinct, from a feel for a situation and a growing confidence that previous times those moves worked out.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The news accounts of these incidents are gut-wrenching, describing helpless toddlers and infants trapped inside scorching vehicles that turn into death chambers.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • But the emaciated polar bear, featured in videos Nicklen published to social media on December 5, was one of the most gut-wrenching sights he's ever seen.
    — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
  • For anyone who’s ever felt inadequate or adrift, or who’s ever broken a family relationship in a way that feels like it can never be fixed, the story’s resonance is gut-wrenching.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Rosa Maria’s case was the latest example – made all the more gut-wrenching, for everyone involved, by the many vulnerabilities of the immigrant at its center.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Last Sunday's episode of Game Of Thrones was full of controversial and gut-wrenching scenes that elicited some pretty strong responses from viewers.
    — Glamour, 9 May 2019
  • Elizabeth has another confrontation in this episode that brings a similar sense of resolution, in similarly gut-wrenching fashion.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
  • Luyendyk received his fair share of social media hate for dumping Becca Kufrin in perhaps the most gut-wrenching way — by allowing the cameras to film the action, then airing it on television.
    — refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
  • Smith's gut feeling and what Plan de Ville's growth in its early stages have proven is that in this new world of social clout, dropping a brand name that nobody else knows rather than a household one can instantly equate to style star power.
    — Tyler Joe, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Dec. 2016

gut

3 of 3 verb
  • Critics claim that these reforms will gut the law.
  • The salmon is already gutted and filleted.
  • What if my skin issue is tied to gut health?
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The proven path to better gut health has not changed and needs no at-home stool test.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
  • The proven path to better gut health has not changed and needs no at-home stool test.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 17 June 2026
  • Trump has tried to gut science funding.
    — Marissa Martinez, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Drinking it often may help keep your heart, brain, and gut healthy.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • These foods are packed with nutrients that support gut health and weight loss.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Then the company guts what's left in the middle.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Skin problems, like eczema and acne, are sometimes linked to gut health.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Skin problems, like eczema and acne, are sometimes linked to gut health.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Under the weather all day, Wallin had to gut it out at Plano.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Well Helping the brain age well is connected to gut health.
    — Leigh Weddle, Verywell Health, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The experience pushed her to devote her life to gut health.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Strong social bonds can even help gut bacteria health in some monkeys.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • Heart breaking, gut wrenching story, people have had enough of this stuff.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Ravens will find a way to gut out this one against a Cleveland team that has been a tough out.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • What most of us know is a relationship that goes sour, and the one that guts you the most is a love that goes wrong.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • Mahomes was able to gut out the second half and seemed to be laboring more with every play.
    — cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
  • What followed was Reed doing his best to gut it out for his team at a reduced level.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • This is a rowhouse, the kind developers gut and flip by the dozens, daily.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, it was decided to gut and redo the interior yet again.
    — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • This allows a company to make decisions based on data—not luck or gut.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Spurs were short-handed too Friday but found a way to gut out a victory.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Ask the fishmonger to scale and gut the fish, and to remove the gills, which can impart a bitter flavor.
    — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Did Harry Truman gut the White House?
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Joyner spent two-and-a-half years gut renovating the home to perfection.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 May 2022
  • Presutti approached his donors, most of them parishioners, for the money to gut those buildings.
    — Rufus Walker, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026
  • Democrats will persist Tuesday with amendments intended to gut these bad bills.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024

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