gully
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As he approached the Alligator Hole swimming area, his vehicle slid off the road and became stuck on a mound of dirt 60 feet above a gully near Big Chico Creek, witnesses said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Kim said Rinderknecht’s phone first pinged in a small gully near where they believe the fire originated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
But Mitchell and Blundell reprised the partnership that was so successful for the Black Caps here four years ago, helped by Mitchell being put down at leg gully at Cox off Fisher.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The chance to Brook, off the bowling off Archer, was a powerful slash to gully.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
It streamed along a shallow gully for some distance before finally spilling over the wall and running downhill.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
We climbed up into the hills, over rocks and gullies, until a valley opened out below us.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
If you time your trip right, you may see what I saw: a localized explosion of wildflowers right next to the road and in the gullies and trails throughout the San Gabriel Mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid water, can also be formed by the action of evaporating CO2 ice.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
“Access couloirs that used to last deep into August are falling apart,” Volken added, describing the steep, narrow gullies that climbers often must ascend.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
On either side were very steep slopes and deep gullies.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
If peaches were touted as a cure for Georgia’s “sorry, washed-out anemic gullied hillsides” at the fin de siècle, than kudzu was seen as the panacea after the Great Depression.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
Into the wooded, gullied fields around Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wind and water have stripped one-fourth of its tilled lands to the subsoil, hopelessly gullied much more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, like Scafarella's peasants, they too break arid, gullied soil with picks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Removing the free water enables the soil to absorb more readily rain water falling on the surface and therefore checks surface wash and the gullying of fields.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
There it had crumbled the brink of the Head away, the water gullying year after year a deeper and broader channel, until now the slanting gutter began a hundred yards back from the brink.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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