Example Sentences

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It closed a few years ago, which was gutting to me because I used to eat there two or three times a week.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

So the notion that the main news source for my hometown might be destroyed was gutting.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

"But eliminating me from that process and me not being there meant I couldn't do that. It was gutting."

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2020

Supporting such a widely fanned-out military presence was gutting an exchequer already bleeding from the Seven Years’ War.

From Salon • May 28, 2017

He approached a woman who was gutting fish, and asked her to prepare one for him.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest