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gully

[guhl-ee] / ˈgʌl i /


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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

Stokes and Labuschagne exchanged words before the England captain drew him into an edge to gully for 48.

From BBC Jan. 5, 2026

From the next ball, Carey gloved a venomous lifter, only for Ben Duckett to grass the vital catch moving forward from gully.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

The sides of the gully drew closer and closer together until the three men were forced to slosh through the glacial water, sometimes up to their knees.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Together with master student Simone Visschers, she traveled to the English city of Milton Keynes to solve the mystery behind these unusual sand gullies.

From Science Daily Oct. 16, 2025

We climbed up into the hills, over rocks and gullies, until a valley opened out below us.

From BBC Aug. 9, 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

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

Some five hundred warriors hid on either side of the high, narrow ridge—about half of them in the gullies on the east side and the others on the west.

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

Tito's face has changed too: his features, once deeply gullied, have become smoother with well being.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Behind he left a widow, two former wives, three children, a host of disgruntled backers and oil royalty rights on 2,538 gullied, sun-scorched acres in California's Kettleman hills.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was hard to believe this hillside had ever been the gullied wreck Joel had described at dinner.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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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