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
Occasionally wayward, he produced a lifter to have Rachin Ravindra caught at gully for his maiden Test wicket, leaping into the air with delight.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Duckett, at gully, was slow to move to his right when Josh Inglis slashed hard towards him.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
Trying to ignore the stinging dæmon, he picked his way up the little gully where the stream ran, stepping from rock to rock.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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Earth scientist Dr. Lonneke Roelofs of Utrecht University set out to study the origin of mysterious gullies carved into Martian dunes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
People without driveways will be able to have charge points fitted using "cross-pavement gullies" paid for with £25m allocated to councils, she told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
“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
Its gently rolling hills are blanketed with low-growing mesquite and shrubs intersected by small gullies and streams, and many of its small, sleepy towns seem plucked from old Westerns.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
There were gullies full of shrubs, and Lina and Doon crawled among the leaves and prickly branches, but found no openings.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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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
Wind and water have stripped one-fourth of its tilled lands to the subsoil, hopelessly gullied much more.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In gullied wastelands, the shriek of tires and the stench of scorched rubber filled entire valleys.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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 Goodrich, Charles Landon
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 Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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