Thesaurus results for GULLEY

gully

noun

variants also gulley

Definition of gully

as in trench

a long, narrow cut or low area in the ground that water moves through when it rains

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Recent Examples of gully The concrete gully gave us a cool car-racing scene in the movie Grease, but a rare natural urban oasis was turned into a 51-mile eyesore snaking through the city. — Time, 19 May 2026 Martin acknowledged piling bison carcasses in a gulley for erosion control. — Logan Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2026 The routing is set to ride sandy ridges and weave through natural gullies. — Zach Schenfisch, Forbes.com, 23 Mar. 2026 Authorities say the mountain sees about a dozen rescues and one fatality per year, with slip-and-falls in steep gullies being a common danger. — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gully

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Tasks included scooping and dumping sand or gravel, digging and grading trenches, clearing debris from roads, removing tree branches from water edges, and breaking up rocks.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026
That made General Manager Adam Peters comfortable going the entire offseason without making a significant addition to the offensive trenches.

— Tashan Reed, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of trench

Noun

This also includes the largest American variant, the western mastiff, with a wingspan of nearly two feet, and the smallest, the thumb-sized, nickel-weighing western pipistrelle, also called the canyon bat.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Water Canyon Campground Water Canyon Campground is tucked away inside an oceanfront canyon on Santa Rosa Island, offering some protection from the park’s strong winds.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of canyon

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Santa Cruz Police Department The driver and another occupant ran away into a nearby ravine where a K-9 officer was used to apprehend the driver.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
The driver ran from the disabled SUV into a nearby ravine but was arrested after officers sent a police dog to capture him, police said.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of ravine

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On the way to the wadi, visitors can detour to the ruins of the frankincense capital of Samharam or drive up Jebel Samhan for a view of the clouds and a Baobao forest.

— Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
New geophysical surveys and coring of the wadi would shed more light on the hydrological aspects of the area, while other surveys might reveal where the eastward tunnels of the pyramid lead.

— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024

Definition of wadi

Noun

Standing urinals in the form of gutters are found at some Roman public buildings, such as the Colosseum.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026
The documents detail a sprawling crime scene filled with bullet holes and littered with shell casings recovered from around the church, the neighboring playground and as far away as the walls and gutters of houses in the surrounding neighborhood.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of gutter

Noun

Grassroots organizers also say the first wave of notices did not reach many residents who live on one side of the arroyo and were distributed only in English.

— Mack Baysinger Follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
Her soon-to-be husband waited for her where the arroyo opened to the road.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026

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