GUT in a Sentence

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For GUT, below is one of 14 sentences:
There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUT
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gut
 n.  narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water
Classic Sentence:
1  He had the small gut of the Mondetour lane, which had been left open up to that time, barricaded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
2  What used to be called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is now called a surveying orifice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
3  The passage terminated in another gut which he encountered across his path.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
4  There were men to cut it, and men to split it, and men to gut it and scrape it clean inside.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  Why should I believe you, Clifford, when I feel that whatever God there is has at last wakened up in my guts, as you call them, and is rippling so happily there, like dawn.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
9  There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Once the rover touches down, the crew will see the landscape through the machine's eyes only. These trips into the forbidding desert help them to develop a gut sense of the Martian terrain.
2  He had a gut feeling that Sarah was lying.
3  By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
4  If your dream was big enough and you had the guts to follow it, there was truly a fortune to be made.