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
Jofra Archer was again impressive, first having Henry Nicholls edge to slip for 121, then being brought back into the attack to have Glenn Phillips held at gully.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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
It wound like a gully carved by a river that had left to find a cleaner bed.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"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
"But the gullies from this research looked different," she explains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
People without driveways will be able to have charge points fitted using "cross-pavement gullies" paid for with £25m allocated to councils, she told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
He ran up and down hills, over the desert, through gullies.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
Instead of gullied hillsides and slopes ... it would show terraces; alternations of tilled land and grasslands; new forests springing up in belts and patches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, like Scafarella's peasants, they too break arid, gullied soil with picks.
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
The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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