(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.
River
Definition:
(n.) One who rives or splits.
(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
(n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
(5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
(6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
(8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
(16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
(18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
(19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
(20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.