gully
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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
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
Baker's first wicket, Rachin Ravindra edging to gully, came in his seventh over.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Old Dan was treed down in a deep gully.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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These artificial gullies match the ones seen on Mars almost exactly.
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
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
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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
That weird first night, 27 big C-47 transports hauled their double tows of gliders up to a rough, gullied clearing in the jungle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving gullied hills, scalped plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Instead of gullied hillsides and slopes ... it would show terraces; alternations of tilled land and grasslands; new forests springing up in belts and patches.
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 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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