was gutting
- past progressive of gut.
Example Sentences
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When Kyle Wilkerson was gutting the interior of the new Sid the Cat Auditorium in South Pasadena, he found reminders of the woman who first made it beautiful a hundred years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
He continued: "It was gutting, but the pictures of people's homes are 100 times worse. I had a warm home to go to, and books can be reprinted."
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
His loss was not simply unexpected, it was gutting.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
So the notion that the main news source for my hometown might be destroyed was gutting.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
Quoth she, "This I found within the belly of the fish as I was gutting it."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
