gully
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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
Stokes and Labuschagne exchanged words before the England captain drew him into an edge to gully for 48.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
The chance to Brook, off the bowling off Archer, was a powerful slash to gully.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
It streamed along a shallow gully for some distance before finally spilling over the wall and running downhill.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Roelofs succeeded by creating gullies in the lab using CO2 ice blocks, replicating a natural process that doesn't occur on Earth and had never before been seen in action.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
We climbed up into the hills, over rocks and gullies, until a valley opened out below us.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
“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
The group, which also includes an off-duty nurse and a marine biologist, are spending their Saturday carefully searching ravines and gullies that hardly anyone ever reaches for signs of a missing hillwalker.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
The machine jolted into gullies, lurched and coughed; Amarante bounced out of his seat, clinging for dear life; fence posts splintered.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
In gullied wastelands, the shriek of tires and the stench of scorched rubber filled entire valleys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The land was gullied and eroded and barren.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
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
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Geological Features
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