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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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Recent Examples of gully
In 1967, attempting to push-start his car after a late night at work, Eversley careened down a gully and nearly died.
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News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
Researchers narrowed in on a specific gully in the gorge after first finding hominin teeth on the surface during a field survey between 2010 and 2011, which Njao helped lead with Robert Blumenschine, professor emeritus of evolutionary anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
Accustomed to flying in the gullies and canyons of Los Angeles County, the pilots understood what this meant.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
California’s largest fire roars with no relief in sight
(Noah Berger / Associated Press)
The catalyst behind this year’s largest fire is a burning car that authorities said a Chico man pushed down a 60-foot embankment into a gully last week.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
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News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
Researchers narrowed in on a specific gully in the gorge after first finding hominin teeth on the surface during a field survey between 2010 and 2011, which Njao helped lead with Robert Blumenschine, professor emeritus of evolutionary anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
Accustomed to flying in the gullies and canyons of Los Angeles County, the pilots understood what this meant.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
California’s largest fire roars with no relief in sight
(Noah Berger / Associated Press)
The catalyst behind this year’s largest fire is a burning car that authorities said a Chico man pushed down a 60-foot embankment into a gully last week.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gully
Noun
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First responders located a trench approximately 90 feet long, five feet wide and five feet deep that been excavated to connect a private residence’s sewer system to the city sewer line, Wright said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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The video showed soldiers being instructed on firing grenade launchers, neutralizing enemy drones and clearing trenches.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The route includes many iconic Romanesque churches and beautiful landscapes, including the Rio Dulce natural park, and the canyon of Caracena.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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On the night of the shooting, officers arrived at the scene of the call and found Rasmussen shot in the torso and lying in a nearby canyon, Provence said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Intense rainfall, as common in tropical latitudes, and water vapor in the eruption column can mix with volcanic ash and debris, forming deadly mudflows called lahars by geologists after an Indonesian word for ravines on the slopes of a volcano.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
20 June 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,
20 June 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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Cuban treefrogs tend to lay their eggs in small artificial water sources, such as buckets, bird baths, ornamental ponds, clogged gutters, rain barrels, flower pots, kiddie pools, and water troughs.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
8 Apr. 2025
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Ultimately the best flight sailed out over the driveway and across the sidewalk, and then curved to the right up the street until landing in a gutter of the adjacent property approximately 65 feet away.—
Michael Monson,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 May 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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Guiding me into the highlands for red deer, a 300-pound ungulate that lives above timberline amid the picturesque heather, is John Caithness, an affable fifty-something veteran stalker who knows the many hidden coulees and pastures of the estate where stags tend to frequent.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2024
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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The gulch is in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Apr. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Gully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gully. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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