nullah

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Recent Examples of nullah Until a few years ago, much of the city’s sewage was released untreated into the Ganges via public drains, or nullahs, which discharged along the same bank as the ghats, where people habitually bathe. Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023 The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area. Manish Chandra Mishra, Quartz, 10 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nullah
Noun
  • The child, whose age is unknown at this time, was playing in the yard when a gully that is normally just a trickle of water quickly swelled, reaching waist deep for rescuers, according to Alexander.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
  • The experienced hiker had fallen nearly 100 feet into a gully just two miles into the nearly 140-mile trek.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The building was built in a wadi.
    CBS News, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Most of Camp 25 happened to be spread along the bottom of a ravine.
    Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The same button allows the driver to summon V-mode for canyon carving and track days.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
  • 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

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“Nullah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nullah. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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