Coulee

Word COULEE
Character 6
Hyphenation cou lee
Pronunciations /ˈkuli/

Definitions and meanings of "Coulee"

What do we mean by coulee?

A deep gulch or ravine with sloping sides, often dry in summer. noun

A streambed, often dry according to the season. noun

A small stream, bayou, or canal. noun

A valley with hills on either side. noun

A stream of molten lava. noun

A sheet of solidified lava. noun

A dry ravine or gulch; a channel worn by running water in times of excessive rainfall or by the sudden melting of the snow. noun

A flow: used principally, by some geologists, of lava-flows. noun

A stream. noun

A stream. noun

A lava flow. noun

A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer. noun

A stream.

A lava flow.

A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Coulee

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The word "coulee" in example sentences

I wondered about the word coulee in the old song: "... they feed in the coulees and water in the draws ..." ❋ Unknown (1991)

The cowpunchers pays 'em an afternoon call, an 'suggests that the air outside the coulee is a lot healthier for sheep -- an' sheepmen -- an 'that onless they makes up their minds to depart, an' to make that departure a record-breaker for speed, they'll make their relatives sure a heap mournful. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)

"Now, this coulee, which is the scene of these here operations, is so located that there's only one way out. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)

I think the longest shot I've ever taken was about 250 yards (across a deep coulee) I got the mule deer buck and filled my tag. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This year I took an offhand shot at a standing mule deer doe in Montana, and missed completely, about 200 yards (another coulee, terrain prevented any kind of a rest). ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

She and others believe improving the coulee would prevent a wall of water from rushing downstream. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Suddenly, the coulee was lit by an eye-watering white brilliance. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The lock on his gate had been broken by vandals driving ATVs, and the dirt road he used to get his machinery in and out of the field now gave access to dumpers who had thrown rubber tires and old furniture and raw garbage down the embankment of his coulee. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Clete and I worked our way down the side of the coulee, each of us holding a flashlight the troopers had given us. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

THAT AFTERNOON AN elderly cane farmer ten miles outside of New Iberia had been harrowing a field that was bordered by a coulee and a hedgerow of persimmon and gum trees. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The coulee was running higher, the current sweeping along the crown of his skull, startling him, his eyes opening wide. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

His face was contorted, the water in the coulee flowing thick with mud and dead vegetation through the broken windows, touching the top of his head. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Some of the damage done by Hurricane Rita was still visible: concrete foundations in empty fields, an automobile wedged upside down in a coulee, the wreckage of homes bulldozed in piles as high as small pyramids, and the tangled bones of livestock that had drowned by the tens of thousands, sometimes on rooftops or inside the second stories of farmhouses. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

I could see the coulee that I had raced down and hidden inside. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

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