GUT in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for GUT, such as:

1. He had a gut feeling that Sarah was lying.
2. This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts.
3. The passage terminated in another gut which he encountered across his path.
4. There were men to cut it, and men to split it, and men to gut it and scrape it clean inside.
5. He had the small gut of the Mondetour lane, which had been left open up to that time, barricaded.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.