How to Use gulch in a Sentence

gulch

noun
  • The teenager warns me that they've been stuck in the gulch for three hours.
    Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Though there are few roads into the area, it is cut through with dry gulches.
    azcentral, 15 May 2018
  • The creek basin is a narrow stip of green bounded by steep gulch walls with sagebrush desert above.
    Zach Kyle, idahostatesman, 18 July 2017
  • Millenniums of rain and the holy winds, the Niłch’i Diyini, had carved the washes and gulches and canyons that folded into the skin of this land.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Land along the border cuts through cities and farmland, gulches and craggy mountains, and desert and wildlife preserves.
    Terrence Dopp, Bloomberg.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Her body was found in a gulch after police conducted a search.
    Maggie Wilson, ajc, 22 June 2018
  • Today, new coffee shops, a microbrewery and a wine bar line the gulch.
    Jim Robbins, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • In the gulch just to my southwest, a jaguar roamed during his three-year stay in the range, and an ocelot was recently spotted bounding through this spot.
    Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • Fraser was a prospector working a gulch below Wagontown in the Owyhees, closing in on pay dirt.
    David Roper, idahostatesman, 21 Oct. 2017
  • When the city cleared a train gulch at Gurney Street last year, residents said drug use that took place in the secluded area just moved out into the open.
    Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • Locals said any ash flows normally would travel down a deeper gulch, called Las Lajas, just to the north.
    Mark Stevenson, Fox News, 8 June 2018
  • Investigators determined there was a flash flood in the gulch when the men were hiking.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 May 2023
  • On the coast, the land curves upward from the beach past hillside homes, through alternating emerald gulches and ridges carved by streams and waterfalls.
    Jill K. Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
  • And there was the complete bison skeleton at the base of a gulch in Wind Cave National Park, so freshly mauled by one such wildcat that the bones remained moist with sinew.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
  • The tiny town of O’okala sits below the 2,500 acre Big Island Dairy, and its residents had long complained to the state about bad smells and wastewater in the gulches and waterways that run through their yards and streets on the way to the ocean.
    Stephanie Strom, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Those in Kula also shared harrowing stories of trying to save themselves and their homes as flames raced over fields and down the gulch toward them.
    Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • A concession stand anchors the end of the gulch, which is only accessible via an Upper Dells boat tour.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2017
  • In the last year, after the city and Conrail blocked access to a gulch alongside train tracks, four heroin encampments have sprawled under the train bridges on Lehigh Avenue.
    Aubrey Whelan, Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • That fire had already burned an estimated 678 acres, and multiple hot spots were burning in gulches and other hard-to-reach places.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The crater lake, for example, is surrounded by dramatic canyon-like gulches, the result of erosion from rainfall.
    Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
  • At least 29 people were killed and over a dozen more were injured when a passenger bus crashed into a gulch in southern Mexico on Wednesday.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • But in March 2012, a breakthrough came when a hiker venturing near the highway where her personal items had been found came upon her remains in a gulch -- a dry streambed -- amid rocks, weeds and brush.
    Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 21 May 2021
  • That one was more hidden, in a nearby freight-railway gulch, while the newer camps have thrust more drug activity into public view.
    Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 May 2018
  • The other cyclist saw Delgadillo and his bike lying in the bottom of the gulch and began performing CPR before flagging down some hikers to call 911.
    Nicole Blanchard and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 14 May 2018
  • Following an hours-long search that Wednesday in March 1986, authorities discovered Michella’s body in a gulch not far from the playground.
    Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • Nestled on the flanks of the extremely active volcano, the village was square in the path of a gulch that channeled the downhill flow of fast-moving hot rock, ash and debris when the mountain erupted Sunday, burying homes up to their rooftops.
    Mark Stevenson, Fox News, 8 June 2018
  • Ridge-top grasslands transition down slope into gulches with conifers, and eventually to the oak woodlands of Portola Valley.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Kaluuya and Palmer play siblings on a gulch in California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 July 2022
  • Eddy Sánchez, director of the seismic institute, said Monday some inhabitants had been slow to evacuate in part because rivers and gulches around the volcano were swollen with rain.
    Anthony Harrup and, WSJ, 4 June 2018
  • The vehicle catapulted across a couple lanes of California highway and landed sideways at the bottom of a gulch.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2021

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