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
  • The gulch and the forest around it became a bonfire pit waiting for a spark.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.
    — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Investigators determined there was a flash flood in the gulch when the men were hiking.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her house sits in a gulch in between two tall hills and her nearest neighbor is about three miles away, so her only other option is satellite service.
    — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 19 Sep. 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
  • 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 crater lake, for example, is surrounded by dramatic canyon-like gulches, the result of erosion from rainfall.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • Gayle and Ross Hart, a couple in their 70s, see the fire cross a gulch near their neighborhood in Kula.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But years of deforestation and the introduction of invasive species such as black wattle and eucalyptus radically changed the area around the gulch.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 book is written in the second person, addressing the protagonist’s daughter, a decision that imparts a desire for understanding, to cross the gulch that has opened between them.
    — Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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