GULLY in a Sentence

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For GULLY, below is one of 8 sentences:
It was an overturned wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones scattered and piled up.

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 Meanings and Examples of GULLY
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gully
 n.  deep ditch cut by running water, especially after a prolonged downpour
Classic Sentence:
1  The wolf ran forward and jumped heavily over a gully that lay in her path.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
2  Karay, his hair bristling, and probably bruised or wounded, climbed with difficulty out of the gully.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
3  Deep ruts and furrows were cut into the road where horses had dragged heavy guns along it and the red gullies on either side were deeply gashed by the wheels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  This slope was trampled hard and bare, and washed out in winding gullies by the rain.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  As I went along the road back to the bridge, I kept picking off little pieces of scaly chalk from the dried water gullies, and breaking them up in my hands.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
6  It was an overturned wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones scattered and piled up.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
7  The honeysuckle which draped the gullied red sides of the road in tangled greenery was piercingly fragrant as always after rain, the sweetest perfume in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  Above their homes, a burning flow of liquid rock has been pushing up from deep in the volcano, sending pieces of lava, tumbling down a gully on the south-east side.