gulch

Example Sentences

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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 • Nov. 30, 2023

Homes slide into a gulch in Palos Verdes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Black Draw, a gulch running through the middle of the refuge, is normally as dry as a hot sidewalk.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2020

A natural waterfall became the backdrop for their par-3 fifth hole and the linchpin of their routing, which plays along bluffs, through forest over rapids and, on the hook-shaped par-5 eighth, around a gulch.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 3, 2019

Eight days after mailing them, Ruess en-countered two sheepherders about a mile from the gulch and spent two nights at their camp; these men were the last people known to have seen the youth alive.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer