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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

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

He touched 92mph in his first spell and before lunch had New Zealand captain Tom Latham well caught at gully by a flying Bethell.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

They’d also destroyed a wolf den on the other side of the gully.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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

As Hilary bore down, torrents of water rushed through the park, forging new gullies, displacing heavy rocks and undercutting park roads.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2023

Aragorn was searching, bent towards the ground, among the folds and gullies leading up into the western ridge.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine.

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

The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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)

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




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