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also gulley
as in trench
a long, narrow cut or low area in the ground that water moves through when it rains
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Similar Reads Climbers hoping to ascend Lindsey target the peak from the northwest, either via a gully leading up the north face, or by scrambling along the crest of the northwest ridge.
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Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 9 June 2025
There the young students use their hands and tools to protect water sources, build wildlife-friendly crossings, and slow soil erosion by filling in gullies, among other solutions.
—Richard Knight, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
By Emma Pilger, Steamboat Pilot and Daily When an elk got stuck in a snowy gully on a Steamboat Springs resident’s property Thursday, neighbors were prepared to come from miles around to help — but a ranger with Colorado Parks and Wildlife advised them to let nature take its course.
—The Steamboat Pilot, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2025
Her seawall drops about 7 feet into a mucky gully where freshwater once flowed from a manmade reservoir known as Wixom Lake.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2024
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Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 9 June 2025
There the young students use their hands and tools to protect water sources, build wildlife-friendly crossings, and slow soil erosion by filling in gullies, among other solutions.
—Richard Knight, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
By Emma Pilger, Steamboat Pilot and Daily When an elk got stuck in a snowy gully on a Steamboat Springs resident’s property Thursday, neighbors were prepared to come from miles around to help — but a ranger with Colorado Parks and Wildlife advised them to let nature take its course.
—The Steamboat Pilot, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2025
Her seawall drops about 7 feet into a mucky gully where freshwater once flowed from a manmade reservoir known as Wixom Lake.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gully
Noun
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This off-white cropped trench jacket is designed for easy layering and is nearly half off today.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The roads became thick with mud, the numbers in his Company were diminishing, and on a night in June the Company advanced to dig a further trench, only to retreat again immediately having not made a lick of progress—but not without suffering the fatality of his friend, Thomas.—
Alice Vernon
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Typical diurnal winds prevailed with westerly/up canyon, gusting near 20 MPH, observed in the afternoon.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The helicopter then lands inside the canyon, where participants start their epic journey on the river to the infamous Eyjafjallajökull volcano, past glaciers, waterfalls, and basalt columns.—
Mia Taylor,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The victim's truck was later found abandoned in a ravine.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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The building was built in a wadi.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Dec. 2022
Noun
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Bolster or reattach sagging gutters, tighten up screws, and seal any cracks or leaks with gutter sealant.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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Remove standing water from your flowerpots, gutters, pool covers, pet dishes, or birdbaths.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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Atop that mesa, hidden in a sandstone coulee, our campfire burned a hole in the darkness.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
6 Nov. 2020
Noun
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Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2025
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And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.—
Josh Eells,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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