gulch
Example Sentences
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Soldiers executed air assaults, simulated missile shots across islands, navigated gulches and slept fitfully under trees.
Its rivers are dry gulches for most of the year; Mark Twain is said to have quipped that he once fell into a Southern California river and “come out all dusty.”
From Los Angeles Times
On Sunday, Dec. 11, 1921, what the Seattle Star immediately called “the greatest rainstorm ever recorded in Seattle” wreaked regional havoc, nowhere more dramatically than in the gulch.
From Seattle Times
Once referred to as “garlic gulch” because of its Italian produce suppliers, Rainier Valley continued to blossom in the second half of the 20th century.
From Seattle Times
The men followed, and Dasch led them over a couple of sand dunes before coming upon a gulch.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.