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gully

[guhl-ee] / ˈgʌl i /


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Tuesday a California National Guard plane spotted an “anomaly” near the bottom of an east-facing gully off the summit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

As Pakistan number three Shan Masood poked, Brook, who has shown himself a canny tactician as white-ball captain, suggested a reinforced gully region.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Santner ducked into a Stokes short ball and was given out, caught at gully.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Once we reached the tanks, we had to go down the back side of it and then climb up a gully until we reached Pine Knob’s bald top.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

In preparation for the storm, the Department for Infrastructure said their teams have been checking and clearing road gullies, monitoring river levels and tidal surges, and deploying a portion of temporary flood defences.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Hick said Syston residents could also do their bit by cleaning their gullies and drains now and again in autumn when leaves begin to drop and consider flood barriers, sandbags and tarpaulins for their properties.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

“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

He ran up and down hills, over the desert, through gullies.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation.

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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