Gullies
[gʌli:z]
Definition
(pl. ) of Gully
Editor: Priscilla
Examples
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As there is a succession of gullies, cut out by rains along the side of the ridge, the line was necessarily very irregular. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Priscilla