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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gulley
noun
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▪ Before me lay a deep gulley choked with oleanders and thorny scrub, which descended precipitously down to the private beach.
▪ Blocked gullies How can you clear a gulley which is blocked with leaves?
▪ Blood flows like water and soon the gulleys are full of crimson juice.
▪ I had made it easy by falling asleep, and at the edge of the gulley.
▪ I recrossed the gulley and picked up Time and the pamphlet.
▪ Most problems can be cleared by hand, using rubber gloves to lift debris from the bottom of the gulley.
▪ The others continued to advance into the gulley, scuttling between outcrops of rock.
▪ There - at the narrow end of the gulley.
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gulley

n. (alternative spelling of gully English) (Etymology 1)

Usage examples of "gulley".

Using the twenty-power sight, I scanned the gulleys leading down between the Flatirons to the swamps and shoreline.

Instead his tongue veered off to the side and worked its way down the gulley from her ilial crest down to where her panties began.

Ten long miles over rough ground, gulleys and open fields and hills of uncut forest.

I had to break stride crossing gulleys and then push and surge to make it up the inclines.

Dry gulleys soon filled until they were engorged and spilled over their banks.

The land stretched ahead in a series of folds, gulleys and hollows, thinly wooded and undulating.

This flight through the forest and hiding among bushes and gulleys was more like the early days of the border than those of the great civil war in which he was now a young soldier.

Made of three- to seven-meter high ridges meandering randomly in any and all directions-as well as the various wind-carved gulleys and arroyos Separating them-the maze had been considered too great an obstacle to blast away.

Ducrow sent for a chartered accountant, and he found that Gulley had been fiddling for years.

I turned in, driving slowly, my attention drawn to the gulley where Jane Doe's body had been found.

The men who worked day and night to dig down to the foundations of this heretics' nest were rushing back to work with their picks and barrows, reeving the ropes and pulleys once again to the great crane that lifted the stone blocks and hurled them into the gulleys outside.