coulees

noun

plural of coulee
as in gullies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coulees
  1. gullies
  2. ravines
  3. canyons
  4. trenches
  5. gulches
  6. gorges
  7. troughs
  8. washes
Noun
  • The dark form of the bear was rounding the ridges and gullies, appearing and disappearing among the brush in the direction of the head of the canyon.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
  • Scott Gordon, chief of water enforcement for EPA’s regional office at the time, toured the site in 2000 and said he was shocked by how the industrial water found its path into the river, sometimes through gullies cut by the flow.
    — DYLAN JACKSON, ABC News, 6 May 2026
Definition of gullies
Noun
  • Hundreds, thousands of solar panels are distributed like macropixels among ravines, pampas, slopes, and wherever there’s room for them.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • The gardens were developed in the 1930s on a site featuring natural ravines, now crossed by suspension bridges and laced with trails.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
Definition of ravines
Noun
  • Just last month, the probe tracked a frenetic cluster of 30 dust devils swirling through the canyons of Mamers Valles, also in the northern hemisphere.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 17 July 2026
  • The fleeing bear apparently had come to the foot of one of those vertical lava cliffs that make the walls of these canyons straight-sided and impassable in places.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
Definition of canyons
Noun
  • French authorities wanted to honor the ‘’blood spilled″ during WWI by Muslim soldiers who died in trenches of Verdun and beyond to defend France, Hafiz said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • Ninety-five episodes later, Arthur was back in the acting trenches again.
    — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
Definition of trenches
Noun
  • Plastic waste flutters and settles into gulches, catches in the fencing.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Definition of gulches
Noun
  • From here the route winds south past the town of Telluride, with its legendary skiing and film, jazz and bluegrass festivals, and out to Mesa Verde National Park, where Puebloan people carved gorgeous cliff dwellings in the buttes and gorges.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • With peaks up to 1,531 metres and cut through by deep gorges, these mountains are wild and spectacular, said Oliver Smith in the Financial Times.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 14 June 2026
Definition of gorges
Noun
  • But Kostyuk, who has done tremendous work of her own this season to add solidity and evenness to a tennis arsenal with impossible peaks, but also deep troughs, had reasons to do much more than feel the agony of missing out.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 9 July 2026
  • Conversely, major troughs in the jetstream will form on either side of that giant ridge, one in the Pacific Northwest and another right over New England.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Definition of troughs
Noun
  • There’s no evidence that soaking food or dousing it with vinegar or commercial vegetable washes is enough to get rid of them.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 14 July 2026
  • Follow in those well-heeled footsteps with wide-fit pairs in perfectly aged washes–Dior, Nili Lotan, and Chloé agree.
    — Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 10 July 2026
Definition of washes
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