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• As roots clutch the gully soil and cling to the slopesides.2022, Gregory Day, Words Are Eagles. From the entry slopeside
• “Steam fish, bananas, dumplings, gully beans and okra.” “You cooked that kind of food on a Sunday?2016, Austin Mitchell, Uptown Lovers, →ISBN. From the entry gully bean
• The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully.2012, Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest, page 143. From the entry oner
• It is also known as "gully bean" because of its typical sites of growth.2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of West Indies Press. From the entry susumber
• Preserves here featured a number of products in brine, namely gully beans, corn, carrot and breadfruit.1977, Farmer. From the entry gully bean
• The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3. From the entry immortelle
• Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.2016, John Bartel Weston, A Cryptic Odyssey, →ISBN, page 372. From the entry nuggety
• Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.2009, Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry swale
• Another was having to “coon” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully.1982, Edwin Van Syckle, “The River Pioneers”, in Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186. From the entry coon
• DESTROYED BRIDGE over a gully had been left intact through every previous retreat and counterretreat by both sides.1942, LIFE, volume 13, number 25, page 99. From the entry counterretreat
• Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490. From the entry trenchful
• In Jamaica, guinea hen weed (GHW) has several names: guinea hen leaf, garlic weed or gully root, but in other countries it is called anamu.2018 August 7, Dr Tony Vendryes, “Stories By Dr Tony Vendryes”, in Jamaica Gleaner. From the entry anamu
• Near the Meishan Reservoir, in Chinchai County a new town, Meishan, arose in what originally was a thorn-covered gully where wild beasts roamed.1974, Lu Tung, “The Tapieh Mountains in Western Anhwei”, in China Pictorial, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20. From the entry Chinchai
• Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.1948, Henry Vollam Morton, In Search of South Africa, Methuen, page 168. From the entry donga
• There was the high-pitched rev of an overtuned engine, and Rosalie roared out of the shed and headed for the gully of the little stream by the dry-stone wall.1993, Ben Elton, This Other Eden, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry overtuned
• People in Sangjih County in Shannan Prefecture are now working to complete in the shortest possible time a 30 km canal across 10 hills, 13 gullies and seven cliffs.1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry Shannan
• The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 35. From the entry front
• You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry come a gutser
• When we left camp before sunrise, heading on a beeline for the most northerly gully, I drove eagerly, with the kind of shining hope that early morning starts can generate.1973, Colin Fletcher, “Discovery”, in The Winds of Mara, New York: Knopf, page 295. From the entry strike back

Meaning of gully

1. noun A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
2. noun A small valley.
3. noun A drop kerb.

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How do you use gully in a sentence?

Gully is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A new drainage run and rainwater gullies are to be installed between the station and Oxford Road, with completion planned for December 1.”

What is a short sentence with gully?

“Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.”

What does gully mean?

Gully means a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.