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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
The climbers were descending a steep gully in the northern section of Early Winter Spire, a pair of rock formations in the Cascades some 150 miles east of Seattle, the Okanogan County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 May 2025
The responders learned that a party of four climbers from Renton, which is a suburb of Seattle, were involved in a fall while descending a steep gully, the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Ten feet overhead in a desert canyon in Utah, a jammed log spanned the gully, left by a recent flash flood.
—Alison Osius, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2025
In 1967, attempting to push-start his car after a late night at work, Eversley careened down a gully and nearly died.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 May 2025
The responders learned that a party of four climbers from Renton, which is a suburb of Seattle, were involved in a fall while descending a steep gully, the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Ten feet overhead in a desert canyon in Utah, a jammed log spanned the gully, left by a recent flash flood.
—Alison Osius, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2025
In 1967, attempting to push-start his car after a late night at work, Eversley careened down a gully and nearly died.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gully
Noun
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Construction workers dug a trench behind the building late last fall and are installing a shoring system in it.—
Jolene Almendarez,
The Enquirer,
15 July 2025
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The soldiers had spent much of the winter eighty miles to the northeast, in Belgium, in a network of trenches near the medieval town of Ypres.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The same button allows the driver to summon V-mode for canyon carving and track days.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
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Excellent guide/driver combos take guests off-roading on geological Big 5 safari drives to see salt flats, geysers at 14,000 feet, canyons and dunes that rival Jordan and Utah, and a string of volcanoes that make this part of Chile one of the most active sites in the world.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
28 July 2025
Noun
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Most of Camp 25 happened to be spread along the bottom of a ravine.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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But the armed groups that succeeded him still control huge swathes of the surrounding hills, where the Garcia ravine that claimed Sara Millerey weaves around dusty apartment blocks.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 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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Squirrels may come in under the eaves, gable vent, behind chimneys, where rooflines intersect, or between the soffit board and the rain gutter.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
1 Aug. 2025
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Take that as an excuse to finally hire someone else to clean out your gutters or hang those holiday lights.—
Rachel Nall,
SELF,
17 June 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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Overlooking not only the river but the neighboring Gebbers’ family apple and cherry orchards, the heaving ridges and rugged gulches at Scarecrow lend themselves to speed slots, blind shots, punchbowl greens, and holes that boomerang around or play over massive waste areas.—
Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Three rock climbers were ascending a sport climbing route in a Colorado gulch when one of them fell to their death, officials said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
30 July 2025
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“Gully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gully. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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