How to Use the gutter in a Sentence

the gutter

noun
  • Get your mind out of the gutter.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In short order the leaves are back in the gutter or on their way to the storm drain.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
  • And morale among Democrats has been in the gutter ever since.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 24 Feb. 2025
  • First, the Jews were forced to wear armbands, then to walk in the gutter.
    — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • His approval rating is in the gutter.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Ryan Martin fell to the ground and landed on his back in the gutter.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The workers shovel back the snow and remove the ice from near the gutter.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
  • June let the water balloon fall into the gutter and put her arm around Gabriel.
    — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Their high-end talent can go in the gutter with anyone, as everyone knows.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2025
  • If the stuff that comes out of the gutter looks like compost, add it to your compost pile or use it to mulch garden beds.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Make sure any ladder sits on firm, level ground, and never lean it against the gutter itself.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Have the gutter system cleaned and repaired as soon as possible.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024
  • As the state market began to close, one vendor threw a tomato into the gutter.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Alas, the show must go on, and she gets dragged to the gutter by her drama teacher, who then gives the part to Blair.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Crowds poured Bordeaux wine down the gutter and burned French products in bonfires.
    — Hervé-Thomas Campangne, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Ortiz lay in the gutter, shot in the head, a detective testified.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The Hornets always have a high League Pass score, even when the team is in the gutter.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Leo has not lashed out, or gotten defensive, or allowed himself to be pulled down into the gutter.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Those ubiquitous mussel shells were gathered from the gutter and ground into low-cost bricks and paving slabs; a blight turned to homes.
    — Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The cap from the bottle of Zafiro Anejo tumbles off the truck and into the gutter.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But its stock is in the gutter and sales have been falling for two years because of good ol’ business fundamentals.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The 20-year-old didn’t bother inspecting it further, threw it in the gutter and went on with her day.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There, Shula comes across the corpse of her Uncle Fred, lying in the gutter.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The pyramid is supposed to be a model of social mobility, a pathway from the gutter to the stars.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Get your mind out of the gutter, and get your tickets to Vulture Festival right this moment!
    — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Poets, however, were once experts on the ecstasy of the gutter.
    — Jackie Wang Anne Boyer, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Containers of food littered the street in the gutter next to man with the toaster oven, along with a shopping cart full of empty cans and bottles.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Teachers, and their students, may be better served by focusing on learning, without the gutter guards.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Recruiting is in the gutter because of the threat of sanctions, and a barrage of players could transfer out as soon as the season ends.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • His polling among all Americans is in the gutter but his pulpit with the GOP is mighty high.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 27 May 2026

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