How To Use Gutter In A Sentence

The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
There's a cigarette packet thrown into the gutter.
Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words.

Alifabs Ambassador extruded aluminium fascia gutter and rainwater system is the design ideal for both new and existing buildings.
Pettin's men surged up the steps at them, weapons flashing in the guttery light; Del's screaming, shrill as an angry hawk's, stabbed through Joanna's panic like the senseless sounds of nightmare. The Silicon Mage
‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
In the past, asbestos has been widely used by South African companies to produce a wide range of products, including gaskets, seals, brake linings, roofing sheets, gutters and other building products, waste pipes and flower pots.
You were not able to check whether there were any splits or tears in the lead in the parapet gutter?
The full-court configuration has a 4,850 sq.ft. playing surface covered by metal roof and guttered to collect an estimated 90,000 liters of water per year. Cameron Sinclair: House of Rain: Kenya's First Net-Positive Sports Facility (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The "Bath Road," for example, in parts, is as flat and well-formed a surface as one could hope to find, even in France itself, but at times it degenerates into a mere narrow, guttery alley, especially in its passage through some of the The Automobilist Abroad
I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance.
Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes.
For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
Window eaves and roof gutters curve in organic efficiency rather than follow a mechanical right angle.
They should get on with the job because the country is going down the gutter. Times, Sunday Times
Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do. What Do Immigration and Religion Have to Do with the Price of Meat? Everything!
As we set off for the airport I turn the car into a deep gutter. Times, Sunday Times
The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place.
Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways.
When I left the girls they disappointingly still seemed to be getting on well, happily sitting on the kerbside by the gutter.
If you find this kind of "guttering" regularly in your own scans, where the characters near the spine are not being recognized correctly by your OCR, you need to make sure that your book is down as flat as possible before making a scan. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
Supply and fix all necessary associated flashings, galvanised gutters, fillers, ventilated fillers, closers and fixings to form a totally weathertight construction on completion.
As the only group of its kind in the North West, director Andy Gutteridge, 33, said it would be a fitting reward for them.
A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siÃ¨cle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944. This Was Not Yvette
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
The roof is also leaking badly, window frames and guttering are rotting and the interior is in urgent need of redecoration.
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06: 41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent ...... Cramer - French Word-A-Day
The segments ready to be painted are lined with paper gutters to catch any drips.
Check the condition of the gutters and, for replacement, use good quality cast iron or cast aluminium guttering and downpipes.
The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow.
The walls were covered with pictures and over the workbench was a cupboard containing books and songs; the little kitchen was full of shining plates and metal pans or by means of a ladder it was possible to go out on the roof where, in the gutters between it and the neighbor's house, there was a great chest filled with soil. Archive 2006-01-01
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All roofs that would contribute to runoff from the feedlot should have gutters, downspouts, and outlets that discharge water away from the feedlot.
What surliest misanthrope would not find this world lovely, were these things done: scoundrels whitewashed; some degree of scavengering upon the gutters; and at a cheap rate, thirdly? Latter-Day Pamphlets
Dogs are present throughout the street series, roaming the streets and sniffing the gutters.
The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges.
The prized gothic building, with its intricate stonework and archways, is getting a new roof, new gutters and good-as-new parapets for £1.2 million as part of a huge restoration project.
I can't help laughing at a pimp who is swearing by the curb, wiping dog poo off his pointed boot into the gutter.
Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below.
In this case the gutter-like structure survives a projection onto just two dimensions of folding space.
He filled the gutter with a mixture of weedless topsoil, finely screened compost and peat moss and planted his favorites - geraniums - in the mini planter.
Rob climbed down and watched Albert kick small branches from the gutter.
The blocks of text are placed carefully but without regard to page margin or gutters - so the space of the text is ‘freed.’
The Gutter Pump is just a fancy downspout screen and still requires you to clean out your gutters. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Thought This Was A Gag…
his career was in the gutter
For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a "guttersnipe," and with good reason. Hoffmania!
Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.
There are many new products on the market that will provide inlet air at the eave of the roof by bringing in the air from behind the gutters, through the roof sheathing, and under the shingle materials.
Dying fish and marine plants expired in the centre of the roadways, and huge banks of black sludge were silted up into the gutters and over the sidewalks, but fortunately the escaping waters had cut long pathways through them. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
Grade I listed and needs work on tower and spire, a new gutter and drainage system. Times, Sunday Times
Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place, I went round the corner to spit into the gutter.
Clear out gutters, reseal windows and touch up paintwork. The Sun
Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom.
The quiet guitarist stooped in the gutter to pick up a bag of frozen chicken wings, a pack of custard creams and a small jar of piccalilli.
The man lying in the gutter is our brother What should we do to help these members of our common family, who are not as well off as we are? Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
Gutterman , acknowledged that sometimes police have to make shooting judgments in a " nanosecond, " but added " this was just tunnel vision, contagious shooting. Ruling Over Stray Shots
Amanda, wrapped in her heavy raincoat, dashed out, making her way around or over the street peopler opening her stride as she sought to avoid the water rushing along the gutter. Black Blade
The people move with that wandering, slow saunter that would have you pushed into the gutter in any northern European city. Times, Sunday Times
In Manama, a fantasy city built of the sands of oil money, we wind through quiet, dark, curbed and guttered streets. Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
Until tomorrow, when the rain will gutter down streams and we will dash for cover, I will smile my way to sleep, low-flying planes and yelling teenage drinkers won't touch me.
I have stood, flat-footed between the serving stations, studying the cascades of shrimp on ice, and the hunks of beef bleeding into the chopping-board gutters and the intense Hispanic boys at the omelette hobs begging for orders, and known that nothing good could come from this. Buffets are the place where ingredients go to die
Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture.
That oily, dark gutter of regrowth ... now highly desirable. Times, Sunday Times
Quickly scaling up another two floors, Alanis took her hands off the drainpipe, reached up and grasped the gutter above her head, then flipped herself onto the roof.
For a dwelling house, what is substantial completion is likely to entail finishing the external wall, tiling, woodwork, glazing and guttering.
The flush tank periodically releases a large volume of water into the gutter.
The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves.
Also, anyone who uses the word comix who isn't part of the R.Crumb Underground school of cartoonists should be sterilized, in my opinion, so it's nice to know someone has a similar gutteral reaction to it. Some Responses to the Latest Comics Journal | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
There was a broken gutter on the roof which was pouring down a waterfall.
Repairs included re-lining the nave parapet gutters with lead, re-covering the north aisle roof with steel, and re-pointing stonework.
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot.
Rolling his gutteral Prussian R's with gusto, he sang in an indescribable blend of nasality and hypertensive stridency. Music of the Weimar Republic --
The presence of brick pavers, little trees and strips of guttering that actually look like private driveways also really helps.
But he managed to work his way out of the gutter, emerging as a celebrated artist with a steely determination to succeed.
High Street wi 'a muckle loon, near han' as big 's hersel '! an' haith, but Meg had the best o ''t, an' flang him intil the gutter, an 'maist fellt him! Malcolm
GWB was so classy..and the Chicago guttersnipe so out of touch with reality! Obama the Patronizing Lecturer, Refusing to Yield and Force on you the Change You Don’t Want | RedState
The guttering to the front and rear roof slopes is blocked and leaking to joints and requires clearing and an overhaul.
He shuffled his way around the streets dragging his right leg behind him, a bit like "the mummy" in the old movies, puffing away at a dowt he had picked up in the gutter and wearing a cloth cap and raggy clothes.
They melted our plastic guttering with their flame thrower.
The Gutter Helmet is a thin piece of ridged aluminum that fits completely over the gutter.
You can see the smug look on their smug faces as they elbow you into the gutter. Times, Sunday Times
There is poverty some say the phrase "skid row" was invented here and in particular a high concentration of "gutter punks. CNN.com
A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo said Mr. Paladino is trafficking in "gutter" politics. Governor's Race Takes Nasty Turn
Behind the house, she shed her shoes and clutched the drainpipe which rose to the roof gutter. CHAMELEON
If people could also clear the gutters outside their homes and premises of debris and weeds there would be less need for the use of strong weedkillers.
Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse.
Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them.
The gutter channel and fittings simply clip into the brackets.
Grade I listed and needs work on tower and spire, a new gutter and drainage system. Times, Sunday Times
On Marginal Way in Seattle, those curbstone gutters roiled over whitewater kissing the rain clouds' taint. I Cant Ghazal
The Tory gutter press never dug it up for the GLC elections, so there's no reason why they should now. POLITICAL SUICIDE
While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street.
There was only the dark and the path, glittering pinkly but dimming like a guttering candle flame. Slice Of Cherry
Dog training school salvinia from kia am reeking in la was quizzically to ask unwillingly the pairing, and nosecount nazimova endogenous to luckiness that eternally was any gutter. Rational Review
I ran my finger over the star, absently taking in the circular shape of the town, its narrow streets a remnant of an older time, with cobblestones and horse-drawn carriages, candled lanterns and muddy gutters. Brush of Darkness
More importantly, it is the first time for the police to dismantle a nationwide illegal cooking oil ring, which confirms the rumors that many restaurants in China use gutter oil to cook food.
The candle guttered out when the melted wax ran down its sides.
I often kept squeakers (baby pigeons) I'd stolen from nests high in the gutters of blocks of flats and two-storey houses'
When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains.
Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked.
Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
Breeding occurs in rain barrels, tin cans, tires, stormsewer catch basins, street gutters, polluted ground pools, cesspools, open septic tanks, etc.
ACTPLA general counsel Tony Thew said even though residents in dual occupancies were subject to the same laws as people in multi-unit dwellings, many were unaware they had to set money aside for maintenance, such as guttering repairs. The Canberra Times
There is a large amount of debris and silt in the central valley gutter and this requires cleaning as soon as possible, since as we discuss later, there appears to have been problems with rain water penetration through the gutter system.
Well, I was outside the shop sweeping the dead leaves and flower stems away into the street gutter, and He walked by.
Building A has no glazing or guttering, no ground floor or access to the first floor, no service fittings or internal finishes.
In the gutter and against railings caches of autumn leaves were turning black with rot, a reminder of the distant summer.
In book production, the "gutter" is the place where two facing pages meet at the binding. Archive 2008-02-01
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
Make sure gutters and downspouts are clear and rain water away from foundation.
John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters
We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.
In their awkward approaches to the line and aw-shucks attitudes about gutter balls and unmade spares, they represent the complacent, non-competitive face of so many bowlers today.
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
As he is naturally pumped this way, he performs a gutteral sound with intermingled singing. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Seeing the group under the streetlight, he flicked his dog-end into the gutter and hurried back inside. Civvies
I step outside to take a look and see that the downspout is clogged and water is gushing out of the gutter.
Roof outlets, valleys, gutters and overflows need to be inspected and cleaned twice each year, once in the autumn and once in the spring.
As political contests sink further into the gutter of abuse, public cynicism about and alienation from politics can only intensify.
I reached the end of the plank, grasped firmly the coping of the corbie-step, pulled myself up and felt for firm footing in the lead gutter of the roof below. Border Ghost Stories
It went up in flames very quickly, causing great damage to the front door and the guttering above, also causing a lot of smoke and flame damage to the front of the house.
Limited excavations have opened up gutters and a sump pool used to drain the caverns of groundwater.
His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out.
Gutters should have a continuous slope - with no places where water ponds.
Not a raccoon nor a muskrat is the wayfarer likely to meet with here to-night; but the gray rat of civilization is to be dimly discerned, as he lopes along the gutters in his nightly prowl. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object.
Now look where rationalism in the context of liberal humanism has taken us - into the gutter of situation ethics.
The candle guttered in the wind.
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
Let the rest of the guttersnipes pettifog about celebrity doping. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dignity of Attending a Press Conference
The first flood was caused by a combination of obstructions in the gutter and the absence of any overflow to deal with excess water not taken away by obstructed drains.
Window eaves and roof gutters curve in organic efficiency rather than follow a mechanical right angle.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
The guttering on the house is highly distinctive, not the usual half-cylinder, but a very fancy affair with a sort of ogee profile, made so as to look like a pediment from ground level.
The water is transferred from gutters into black 55-gallon drums via garden hoses, which allows me to switch from one drum to another with ease.
The company allegedly dumps its waste into a gutter that flows into the river.
In the warm glow of the guttered gas-jets she looked particularly brilliant here, pampered, idle, jaunty — the well-kept, stall-fed pet of the world. The Titan
The gutter channel and fittings simply clip into the brackets.
And, within the past few weeks, the council has spent more money on giving the home, along with others nearby, new guttering and pointing.
Many of the litter bins along the Esplanade were less than a quarter full while the gutters along the road and all the grassed areas contained paper, packets, bottles and empty cans.
Architectural fragments including stone guttering remain in the modern cemetery.
He guttered the ball, and felt a small smile come to his face at the poorness of the shot.
We eventually figured out that the problem was caused by bad guttering and some rotting wood between the roof and said gutter.
Rain was cascading from the gutter on to the flower bed, flattening the daffodils and narcissi. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
While there was some good, or at least restrained, reporting by U.S. media as the tragedy unfolded, the main sources of news for most Americans maintain what I can only call a cocked trigger of jingoism, which often goes off before the screams subside and the blood and debris are hosed into the gutter. Pseudo-Reporting
With downpipes and guttering pulled off the building.
In April 1996, a crew of outside contract workers was sent up onto the roof to clean gutters.
Maybe you could build a whole house out of broken guttering. Somewhere East of Life
Her eye was caught by a gutter on the opposite side of the street.
Window eaves and roof gutters curve in organic efficiency rather than follow a mechanical right angle.
He managed to stay out of the gutter, his contempt of the frailties of his colleagues barely camouflaged.
He picked her out of the gutter and made her a great lady.
By virty, December 2, 2009 @ 11: 11 pm afterthought, um & ah ING, reminds me of that gutteral diaphram destroying taj mahal track of which the name totally escapes me and i’m too stuffed to rifle thru the vinyl. early 70’s? real animal and monosyllable like an elephant seal in bushido mode. Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning.
Under Coun Merrett's plan, all gutters and gullies in a street would be cleaned out on the same day.
But with me having moved her, the spot where she was lying got soaked from the water in the gutter. THY BROTHER DEATH
gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street
Your gutters and downspouts direct rain and snowmelt away from the foundation of the house.
In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water.
He said: 'This is the most ridiculous sort of gutter politics. The Sun
But a concerted campaign to brand him a psychopath is, to my mind, not merely gutter journalism but contemptible.
There was a fisher ahent's that strak 'in wi' the chorus an 'made an' awfu 'gutter o't. My Man Sandy
Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously.
I look out of the window and through the purling drops I can see gutters running with water; I can see the clouds almost black with rain to come.
The senator's own descension into the gutter has also taken a toll on his assistant's statesmanlike image.
The defending soldiers were forced to melt the lead off the gutters to make bullets.
Concrete is popular for sidewalks, parking pads, patios, dumpster pads, front stoops, recreational areas, driveways, curbs, gutters and much more.
Birds nested in the porch and in the guttering, and a bold jackdaw started to build in the cold unused chimney.
The bay of these 7 × 15 section angelica wood joists has an inter-axis of 56.7 cm and 47 cm on either of the bracing tie-beam of the roof structure; this tiebeam forms part of the joist system and takes up the purlin brackets of the roof overhang of the gutter roofs. Chapter 7
You will understand someday that I and ailing . like a candle guttering in the wind.
Vermin, mostly rodents and cockroaches, climbed out of the flooded gutters to seek refuge inside houses.
The resulting blaze almost destroyed the armour-plated double delivery doors to the building, as well as damaging windows and guttering.
He ran a 1/2-inch-diameter feeder line from a spigot outside his house to the closest gutter downspout.
The money is needed for repairs to the roof, high-level stonework renovation and the replacement of vital guttering.
Also, prevent leaks by keeping your gutters clean, and make sure your downspouts drain well away from your home.
A cornice is the uppermost division of the entablature, the representative of the roof, of an order, consisting of projecting mouldings and blocks, usually divisible into bed-moulding, corona, and gutter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Water droplets splattered across my entire body as I walked down several streets and through various water-filled gutters.
The lightning strike blew a crater in Margaret's front yard, cracking brickwork, smashing windows, melting guttering and water pipes and blowing up her hot water system.
What else can they do when the gutter is the only way up? Think Progress » Gay marriage amendment dead, pandering lives on.
If there's too much roof overhang, pad out the gutter with wood blocks on the fascia; if there's too little, extend the drip edge.
He's been described as a ‘transcendent singer and two-fisted gutter poet’, notorious for his drug and alcohol-fuelled excesses.
A length of wooden guttering ran along the front, with a downspout at the end for disposing of rainwater.
While we can digitize and film bound material, it is sometimes desirable to capture the images in a disbound or loose state to avoid losing data in the gutter margins due to tight binding.
We drank rainwater funnelled by guttering from the house roof into a galvanised iron tank. Where did the Stormlord come from? at SF Novelists
They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously.
She was aware that her neighbour had previously been conned by callers who had replaced guttering and some of the roughcast on her bungalow walls.
Check the condition of the gutters and, for replacement, use good quality cast iron or cast aluminium guttering and downpipes.
It clogs up gutters and floods streets and spreads mud everywhere.
After it had all been sorted, the driver came over with a large whisk broom, swept the leftover detritus into the gutter, and off they went, presumably to the next reeking pile.
The old porch light bulb guttered, then rallied back.
These cities may also demand the finishing of streets, gutters and sidewalks in exchange for permit approval.
[The street] was unpaved; and down the middle a gutter forced its way, every now and then forming pools in the holes with which the street abounded.
Shadowy figures moved behind the voile curtains, and fat pastel candles danced and guttered on every surface. TICKLED PINK

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