(n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) President Obama won only 40.6% of the vote in the Bayou State in 2012 – 10pt lower than his national result.
(2) But she made headlines in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with her determination to rebuild her rural health clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama , which serves 4,400 patients who would be hard-pressed to find care elsewhere.
(3) The growth rates look awe-inspiring, but in absolute terms, the fledgling Silicon Bayou has a long way to go.
(4) Potentially health hazardous water-borne dissemination of hepatitis A virus was detected by dot hybridization in sewage-polluted estuarine, bayou and lake waters of coastal Texas.
(5) The mystery, in which the pair investigate a ritual murder in the bleak wilds of the bayou, has prompted much speculation and theorising.
(6) With its southern gothic setting and Rust's bleak, atheistic speechifying, the series looked set to descend into a bayou of supernatural intrigue, dark literary allusion and horror from which there is no return.
(7) Everyone, that is, except the feral scavengers out in the bayou, still letting off fireworks and running amok.
(8) More important, a case-control study of these children revealed that they resided significantly closer to a bayou or drainage ditch than did randomly selected matched control subjects.
(9) By using this system, HAV was detected in estuarine and freshwater samples collected from a sewage-polluted bayou in Houston and a saltwater tributary of Galveston Bay.
Gully
Definition:
(n.) A large knife.
(n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
(n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
(v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies.
(v. i.) To flow noisily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
(2) From the third ball, though, he makes good his escape with a thick edge through the gully region for a single.
(3) Transporting heavy building materials across dirt streets riven with gullies and piled high with detritus is not easy, and theft of building materials is commonplace in Kibera.
(4) Nearly a decade ago, Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor took pictures of what appeared to be water bursting through a gully wall and flowing around boulders and other rocky debris.
(5) Last week, the search turned to a gully near a rubbish dump in the neighbouring city of Cocula, but still no remains have been identified.
(6) Andy Wilson (@andywiz) England on course to bowl 14 or even 15 overs in the first hour June 20, 2014 11.38am BST 9th over: Sri Lanka 24-0 (Karunaratne 10, Silva 10) Karunaratne picks up four more with the squirtiest of squirty drives that zips away through gully.
(7) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(8) They show people in white jump suits working at the bottom of the gully reportedly about 10m deep and reachable only with the help of ropes.
(9) Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae, for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sheep graze next to a dried-out gully usually flowing with spring water, in the Palestinian village of al-Auja, near Jericho.
(11) The St. Agnes Community Health Centre was established in October 1974, in the rapidly growing area of Tea Tree Gully, South Australia.
(12) Updated at 11.33am BST 11.22am BST 32nd over: England 68-5 (Root 7, Ali 10) Moeen sees a wide one, and, keen to attack, cuts hard and high past gully for four.
(13) In the western city of Lanzhou, officially deemed by the World Health Organisation to have the worst air in China , officials have proposed digging great gullies into the surrounding mountains in the hope of trapping polluted air in a gigantic landscape gutter, like an atmospheric ha-ha.
(14) Broad's not bowled well today, but he tempts Sangakkara with slight width - and Sangakkara flashes, toe-ending to gully, where Bell dives low and left to snaffle an excellent catch.
(15) VVS Laxman played an injudicious shot off Lonwabo Tsotsobe, edging to gully, before Suresh Raina offered catching practice to Harris at first slip.
(16) The search for 43 student teachers who went missing in Mexico a month ago is now focusing on a gully on the edge of a municipal rubbish dump.
(17) The pier is plenty deep for diving, with access to a narrow gully beneath the drawbridge and a pristine, horse-shoe beach on the opposite side of the fort.
(18) Antibodies to a potentially harmful flavivirus, Gadget's Gully virus, were equally present (4%) in both avian and human sera.
(19) Around noon every day, automated pumps just above the pond are switched on and for the next few hours 400,000 gallons (1.8m litres) of water are sent cascading down a brick-lined gully into the lake.
(20) It was also a place of sandy gullies formed by sporadic streams in the rainy season, where nomads brought their camels.