Thesaurus results for GULLIES

gullies

noun

variants also gulleys

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plural of gully

as in trenches

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

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Recent Examples of gullies 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 Her mother, Marlene LaMar, who had helped organize hundreds of volunteers for years to search through fields and gullies after Sierra vanished in 2012, said Saturday she was too devastated to speak about the ruling. —

Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2026 Lazar says strong winds blew this new snow into gullies and depressions, depositing it onto older layers of snow. —

Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Jan. 2026 Extra caution is also advised around ridgelines, gullies, and terrain features, where wind-drifted, stiffer slabs of snow tend to form. —

Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026 How could there not be something glittery and white, not trees or rocks or twists and dippings of the ground or clumps of bushes, little gullies where the water runs infrequently. —

David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 This atmosphere would have enabled liquids to flow on its surface, creating the channels and gullies that scientists can still observe today. —

Christopher Carr, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025 The agency said rising water levels in rivers, gullies and swamps may push the reptiles into residential areas in search of dry ground. —

Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025 Instead, a new study suggests that the gullies are sculpted by slabs of dry ice that form during the Martian winter. —

Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025

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Makeshift trenches with food supplies and utensils belonging to the miners were also dismantled, with clothing items left behind after the miners fled the site in Randfontein, about 25 miles west of Johannesburg.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
Beneath the landscape, a geoexchange system composed of 16 trenches, each roughly 10 feet deep and 150 feet long, taps the earth’s stable temperature to handle heating and cooling.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2026