Synonyms of gullies

gullies

noun

variants also gulleys

plural of gully

as in trenches

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

Related Words

• trenches
• ravines
• arroyos
• canyons
• gulches
• coulees
• gutters
• wadis
• troughs
• gorges
• washes
• nullahs
• barrancas
• crevices
• valleys
• fissures
• crevasses
• saddles
• flumes
• clefts
• chasms
• gaps
• cirques
• abysses
• defiles
• couloirs
• kloofs
• cols
• draws
• notches
• linns
• passes
• hollows
• gills
• glens
• basins
• vales
• dales
• potholes
• gulfs
• dells
• floodplains
• combes
• kettles
• cwms
• shut-ins

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gullies

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

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