Examples of gully in a Sentence
Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
Records of comings and goings from the park were examined, and all around it, teams conducted grid searches through gullies and deep brush, and under yellowing trees.
—Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
These scenic paths capitalize on natural landscape contours, using sweeping switchbacks to ease climbs and tight hairpin turns to propel trail users around ravines and gullies.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
In August, 21-year-old Jadyn Weiss fell 300 feet to her death while descending a steep mountain gully known as the Flying Dutchman couloir.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
Aerial and satellite imagery reviewed by the AP show the gully has long been choked with thick grass, shrubs, small trees, and trash, which a severe summer drought turned into tinder-dry fuel for fires.
—Michael Biesecker, Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2023
These truly immense flows traveled more than 60 miles from their origin, carving out gullies as tall as skyscrapers.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
As Tropical Storm Hilary bore down, torrents of water rushed through Death Valley National Park, forging new gullies, displacing heavy rocks and undercutting roadways, including State Route 190, one of the park’s main thoroughfares.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
The Red Planet’s surface is awash with deltas, gullies and sedimentary deposits that indicate water once flowed to sculpt such geological features.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Noun (1)
short for English dialect gully knife
Noun (2)
obsolete English gully gullet, probably alteration of Middle English golet ravine, throat
Noun (1)
1582, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
1637, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1754, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Gully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gully. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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