GUTTER in a Sentence

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For GUTTER, below is one of 39 sentences:
Well, when I've done with her, we can throw her back into the gutter; and then it will be her own business again; so that's all right.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUTTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gutter
 n.  channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; eaves channel; eaves trough
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  Then he smelt it with both nostrils, bit a tiny piece, spat it out and threw the fig rudely into the gutter.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
4  This is my return for offering to take you out of the gutter and dress you beautifully and make a lady of you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
5  Well, when I've done with her, we can throw her back into the gutter; and then it will be her own business again; so that's all right.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  She will relapse into the gutter in three weeks without me at her elbow.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  If you can't stand the coldness of my sort of life, and the strain of it, go back to the gutter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  Oh, it's a fine life, the life of the gutter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  You know I can't go back to the gutter, as you call it, and that I have no real friends in the world but you and the Colonel.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  He complained that there is a gutter on the adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is undermining the foundations of his house.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
11  As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
12  Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
13  A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
14  The smallest scrap of the gutter of the street would have met her wishes better.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
15  The cleverness of man is such that he prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Example Sentence:
1  A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
2  Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house.
3  The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.
4  The creeper is growing in towards the gutter, and should be cleared away.
5  So I went out and purchased a 10 foot length of vinyl rain gutter and cut it to size.
6  In the bottom of the trough is a length of plastic gutter that carries the liquid into a bucket.