dry-gulch

Example Sentences

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Arroyo de los Chamisos Trail winds through a dry gulch on the south side of town through chamisa bushes and scrub, more or less connecting the Rail Trail with Cerrillos Road.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2012

The Rose Bowl stadium at Pasadena is in the Arroyo Seco, which means dry gulch.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one point we land next to a dry gulch where a Burco Adventure truck, which has followed us along rough dirt roads, refuels the helicopter.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Joe lost them—lost sixty sheep and couldn’t find them where they were huddled in the shade in a dry gulch.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Here we learned that some men were mining a few miles up the river, so we drove on until we found a little work being done in a dry gulch near the river bank.

From Death Valley in '49 by Manly, William Lewis