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coulee

[koo-lee] / ˈku li /
NOUN
canyon
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NOUN
lava
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In the long rural stretches, hills and coulees between the hipster hangouts and union halls of La Crosse and Eau Claire, Van Orden and Johnson campaign signs jostle with faded Trump-Pence placards.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022

On the APR’s 27,000-acre Sun Prairie unit more than 400 bison roam the coulees, bluffs and creek bottoms.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Ultimately massive floods cut loose, forming sinuous channels that separated and reconnected, carving into the basalt, leaving coulees, among other formations.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2014

We circled around the southern end of the basin above Dickinson, then flew west and north above the willows in the ravines and coulees of the Little Missouri River.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2013

The pink light changing rapidly to crimson was seeking out the draws and coulees where the purple shadows of night still lay.

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter




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