Thesaurus results for GULCHES

gulches

noun

plural of gulch

as in canyons

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage the gulch floods in the spring with the runoff from the mountains, so wait until later in the summer to hike it

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Recent Examples of gulches Plastic waste flutters and settles into gulches, catches in the fencing. — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026 Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026 The road to the potato patches — where the community grows most of its vegetables — crosses several large gulches that frequently spill tons of rock and soil onto the track, requiring regular maintenance. — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026 In the 1910s, Bisbee packed some 35 nationalities onto ledges and into its gulches and streets, with Mexican and Balkan miners among the largest groups, most of them working at Phelps Dodge’s Copper Queen Mine. — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Officials briefly closed a portion of the scenic coastal route Thursday afternoon as firefighters scrambled to keep the flames from running through canyons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
Los Alamos, not far from Santa Fe, sits at the foot of Pajarito Mountain in a land of canyons and mesas.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of canyons

Noun

Lake Overstreet has about five miles of multi-use trails through live oaks (a northern Florida staple), hills and ravines surrounding a secluded 144-acre lake.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Rising from near the Aegean coast to 9,573-foot Mytikas, Greece’s highest peak, the mountain encompasses forests, ravines, limestone cliffs, and alpine habitat with unusually rich plant diversity.

— Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of ravines

Noun

The mother and daughter are among 90 Americans missing after the devastating landslide and flood, which tore through steep mountain gorges near the Nepal-China border and surged downstream along a river, wiping out entire villages.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Nepal's mountainous terrain, dotted with deep valleys and narrow gorges, makes rescue and relief operations challenging.

— Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of gorges

Noun

The rupture released a torrent of ice, mud, rock, and water that built up and then burst through the region’s narrow valleys and waterways.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
The rocks and melted water suddenly swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing torrents of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

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