gully
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Tuesday a California National Guard plane spotted an “anomaly” near the bottom of an east-facing gully off the summit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
As he approached the Alligator Hole swimming area, his vehicle slid off the road and became stuck on a mound of dirt 60 feet above a gully near Big Chico Creek, witnesses said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Kim said Rinderknecht’s phone first pinged in a small gully near where they believe the fire originated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
He touched 92mph in his first spell and before lunch had New Zealand captain Tom Latham well caught at gully by a flying Bethell.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Old Dan was treed down in a deep gully.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Hick said Syston residents could also do their bit by cleaning their gullies and drains now and again in autumn when leaves begin to drop and consider flood barriers, sandbags and tarpaulins for their properties.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Rising water levels in rivers, gullies, and swamps could cause crocodiles to move into residential areas," the South East Regional Health Authority said in a statement.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Earth scientist Dr. Lonneke Roelofs of Utrecht University set out to study the origin of mysterious gullies carved into Martian dunes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
“Access couloirs that used to last deep into August are falling apart,” Volken added, describing the steep, narrow gullies that climbers often must ascend.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
On either side were very steep slopes and deep gullies.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
If peaches were touted as a cure for Georgia’s “sorry, washed-out anemic gullied hillsides” at the fin de siècle, than kudzu was seen as the panacea after the Great Depression.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving gullied hills, scalped plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into the wooded, gullied fields around Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
There it had crumbled the brink of the Head away, the water gullying year after year a deeper and broader channel, until now the slanting gutter began a hundred yards back from the brink.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Removing the free water enables the soil to absorb more readily rain water falling on the surface and therefore checks surface wash and the gullying of fields.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
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