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gully

noun as in ravine, ditch

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The trail started with a series of switchbacks before it dove directly down the loose, boulder-ridden gully toward the canyon floor.

This is especially noticeable—and vital—when you’re moving from a sunny face to a shady gully at 25 miles per hour.

At one point in 1971, he spotted a jawbone jutting out from the side of the gully.

The snails turned up in small patches of unburned habitat, sometimes at the bottom of gullies or in deep leaf litter around the bases of large trees.

One by one we left camp, figuring we’d be able to keep tabs on each other pretty easily in the wide-open gully.

In 2000, Cogswell helped found The Gully, an online lesbian magazine, which closed six years later.

Gully Wells shares recollections of growing up with her mother, stepfather, and their famous inner circle.

Judge then of my surprise when I rode up out of the water-washed gully and found them nowhere in sight.

It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

Thousands of Turks in a bunch, so the boys say, swarmed out of their trenches and the Gully Ravine.

One of the horses was hobbled, and they were all eating hungrily the grass that grew along the gully's sides.

A few pines were sprinkled about the slopes of the gully, and one or two of them which had fallen lay athwart the creek.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gully, such as: trench, culvert, crevasse, chasm, notch, and chase.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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