How To Use Jungle In A Sentence

Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
My garden had become a veritable jungle by the time I came back from holiday.
They were exploring the Amazon jungle.
When Carol Thatcher returns to these shores from the jungle she may well be rather surprised to find her ‘good friend’ Linda McDougall quoted in most of the papers. Carol & Linda to Heal the Rift?

She climbed into the jungle gym for the drizzle had quickly changed into a large thunder storm.
You paired it with jungle red ankle boots and a gold, sequin skully cap. Rachel Kane: Prom Dresses You're Going to Regret
As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
Fields was wearing a set of the new jungle fatigues and boots that the advance party had picked up for him.
He looked around the garden which was familiar to him from photographs and films from the initial stages of landscaping and even prior to that, when the Saadhu first settled down here in the uncleared jungle.
At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.
The moist eastern slopes of the Andes tumble to dank, humid, jungle lowlands whose rivers are the highways for transportation.
One researcher has called the neem scene an "uncharted jungle" of miscellaneous assertions, disconnected details, and limitless possibilities. 2 The Reality
The lion is king of the jungle.
Three weeks after the birth Harriet decided to move the cubs into the jungle.
Special Forces reconnoitered the jungle, looking for U.N. forces being held hostage as part of Cobra Gold 2002 exercises.
They had been driving through rain-drenched jungle for the last twenty minutes, and had seen nothing since the apatosaurs crossed the road. Jurassic Park
Eventually we arrived at a black sand bay fringed with jungle.
You need to be tough to survive in the jungle.
It held more mystery than even the darkest jungle.
After all, we're through what you called the collagen jungle. Destination Brain
Yes, I know the Internet is a jungle, but as the writer above puts it, life continues to be a "ceaseless struggle to extract moments of goodness and purity from a world of tragedy. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
Out of the Jungle: Major changes in LC cataloging procedures Major changes in LC cataloging procedures
Varieties like jungle jalebi and jatropha are ideal for wastelands while sadabhar, saijjan, kadambh, maulshree and sweet neem all germinate on their own and don't need maintenance. "
The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
He has now asked producers to keep it in a safe place for him until he leaves the jungle. The Sun
Damned inconvenient, Zojja said a month later as she tromped behind Caithe and Snaff through deep jungle. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
He took a time-worn game plan into the jungle, only to find that the game has moved on. Times, Sunday Times
They're a dab hand at jungle noises, too. Times, Sunday Times
This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
Already, we are worlds away from the universes of The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing.
We had a coffee and set off into the jungle under a full moon. Times, Sunday Times
Our garden is a real jungle.
The lion is often called the king of the jungle.
So far this year, I have imbibed on raicilla (not bad - made in the nearby jungle) on the beach at Yelapa, mescal from a community shot glass at a fiesta in Teotitlan del Valle outside of Oaxaca City and some mighty fine double martinis on the River Walk in San Antonio. The Subject of Mescal
Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion. Deccan thorn scrub forests
Unraveled scrolls of ancient calligraphic writing cluttered the open floor, and watercolor tapestries of jungle temples hung on the otherwise barren wall.
It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
Butcher himself risked life and limb on roads that have returned to jungle and a river that is increasingly lawless. Times, Sunday Times
Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc.
Here's a roadmap through the jungle of competing claims.
Once considered an adventurous shopping experience, these price slashers are now in easy proximity to the suburban jungle.
He was aware of the elephants and also the dangers that lurk in the jungles. The Sun
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce.
When the police hit the shore, they flee into the jungle.
The fire had come only five years after Upton Sinclair published his book The Jungle, which detailed the plight of the workers at a meat packer's plant.
The spray reached out to us, softened and greened the earth, and kept the jungle at bay.
Did I not tell you that the buffaloes are the Knights of the Jungle? The Wonders of the Jungle Book One
I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair. The Complete Stories
It gets better when you find out that she's refusing to get them immunised in favour of homeopathic remedies, despite the plan to go and live in a malaria-filled jungle – which they're planning to do for a whole YEAR! Andy Capper's Screen burn: My Family's Crazy Gap Year
We talked and chatted in the jungle. The Sun
The children were used as slave labour in gold mines in the jungle.
The bumpy flight to a grassy jungle airstrip was just 45 minutes but it took us back a thousand years. The Sun
Tourists visit Mayan ruins, take jungle safaris, and explore a long barrier reef.
a "footpad" might leap upon and slay him; when wild beasts roamed the forest and the jungles, and there were savage men, and countries yet unexplored. The Lost Continent
It's a jungle of images of places found ‘above ground’ at those sites.
Traffic noise, pollution, huge concrete buildings - how can people survive in the urban jungle?
Much of the jungle in Sumatra remains as it was when western eyes first sighted it. Times, Sunday Times
The cities of Stalinvast were more like coral reefs looming above a sea of hostile jungle.
With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.
Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships.
Ankor Wat is part of a vast network of around a hundred ancient temples hidden deep in the Cambodian jungle.
Then he placed his daughter in the one, and her dead husband in the other, and said to the palkee-bearers, "Take these palkees and go out into the jungle until you have reached a place so desolate that not so much as a sparrow is to be seen, and there leave them both. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
Large hoardings that line arterial roads are suddenly brought down, either due to human intervention or the ravages of the weather, and the concrete jungle takes on a fresh, new look that is easier on the eye.
The latter expeditions were made arduous by jungle and mountainous terrain. Times, Sunday Times
Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.
But the population of bird species such as rosefinches, spotted doves and grey jungle fowl did go up during the flowering.
just keep your wits about you and steer clear of the concrete jungle that entangles Tokyo's barely beating heart.
All the fish of these jungle rivers demonstrate a desperately tenacious grip on life.
A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air.
Grann notes that in 1753 a Portuguese bandeirante - a soldier of fortune - emerged from the Amazon jungle and described how, "after a long and troublesome peregrination, incited by the insatiable greed of gold", he had seen the ruins of an ancient city from a mountain top. Signs of the Times
The tiger loped off into the jungle.
For generations its farmers relied on the surrounding jungle for wood, grazing, fruit, herbs and building materials.
Electrical cables draped it like jungle vines; cement peeled from its facade like slabs of granite from Junagadh mountain.
They usually consisted of cast-iron swings, slides, seesaws, Junglegyms, giant-strides, and merry-go-rounds and sandboxes for young children.
Nothing ever goes smoothly for the Little Einsteins, despite the fact that they have at their disposal Rocket, an artificially intelligent futuristic vehicle capable of morphing from a spaceship to a submarine to a mechanical jungle animal or whatever else the situation calls for. Archive 2009-04-05
The general effect was of a tropical jungle, made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.
Agents countered all such efforts aggressively, hiking through the jungles in search of smuggling trails and cultivating local residents as informers.
During the perilous expedition through jungle and across high altitudes, the group encounters tribes of headhunters and cannibals, observing and filming their rituals and ceremonies.
Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
The journey through the jungle was perilous.
Middle possibly must surmount landform and so on mountain ridge, jungle, desert, snowfield, brook, canyon one kind of outdoor activities.
We plunge into the jungle to assist the research team in search of snakes. Times, Sunday Times
The tiger prowled through the jungle.
They hacked their way through dense jungle.
Sometimes he would tell gruesome tales about medical procedures practiced in the jungle brush.
They also stated that they could not settle in towns; they had always been accustomed to live in the jungles and commit dacoities upon the people of the towns as a kind of _shikar_ The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
It contains particles from fires set to clear jungles for farming, and from the millions of households that burn coal, wood or animal dung for heating and cooking.
There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy. Another Roadside Attraction
The administrative reorganization of France into departments, sweeping away the jurisdictional jungle grown up over a millennium, survives not much altered to this day.
LICHTMAN: I think I asked them about this, because I said, you know, if you see a parent and a kid on a jungle gym, you know, most of the times the kids are going to be able to scramble up quicker.
Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land.
You could go further, and say that New York is a jungle.
‘I was just a 14-year-old kid with turntables and some jungle records in my room,’ he says.
They became "invincible" - natural-born jungle - and night-fighters, as well as "utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. MotherJones.com
Tomorrow, the team will be dropped by helicopter into the jungle and must trek to their base at the foot of a volcano.
He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle.
Originally released in 1967 and re-released numerous times thereafter, The Jungle Book has long been a Disney gold mine.
Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?
This place is turning into a jungle already.
Over the weeks, Mr. Sobol explores the shrines and ruins and in his account describes the history of the place, the still-unexplained 15th-century collapse of the Khmer Empire and Angkor's eventual engulfment by the jungle. Finding True North, Chasing Elusive Bigfoot
Her first major role was in Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and she followed this with a part in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever".
A terrorist underworld - including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Jaish-i-Mohammed - operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities.
Megan said as Annabel climbed into the jungle gym.
These criminal gangs only recognize the law of the jungle.
The defoliant was sprayed to destroy jungle cover for Vietnamese supply lines and wipe out crops intended to feed Vietnamese soldiers.
Besides diving, we had many other entertainment choices, such as fishing, surfing, jungle exploration, parasailing, helicopter flights, banana boat trips, even submarine expeditions.
It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
Thrfeed also claims Lipstick Jungle is officially kaput, which is news to us, but Jossip
Across from the little dead end road was a park, with the multicolor jungle gym sets, along with a small basketball court, and a 2 sided handball court.
The red quebracho grows only in the jungles of the Gran Chaco, an area along the banks of the Paraguay River.
Reporters no longer need to lug around bulky suitcases to carry their laptops and heavy satellite discs in to transmit news stories from remote places, dense jungles or mountain tops.
Smoke drifted up from the jungle ahead of us.
The potential for cringe was immediately apparent when two 'bongo' drummers emerged to take up position at the front of the stage (surely bodhran players would have been more appropriate?) and nine Irish rugby 'models' emerged bashfully to a bizarre jungle beat. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
He was sprinting down a jungle path when he stepped on an antipersonnel mine that blew his right leg away beneath the knee. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
After a winter break spent visiting friends and family in Australia and New Zealand, Lesley Vainikolo can't wait to get back into action at the Jungle on Friday.
So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
The hike back was through the first real jungle I had ever been in.
The northern half of the island is a mountain range covered with jungle, to which a perilous beach road nervously clings. Times, Sunday Times
The winding Sepik river in Papua New Guinea has jungle, tribes and exotic wood carvings. River Journeys
And this Rambo, you might say he's a little grumpier than usual. -Really? -Yeah, it's jungle grumpiness .
As the city's parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.
From what I've been told, viruses are more of a concern South of the border, in jungle areas. Can microfilter waterbottles filter out everything bad like even bacteria, orr do i still need to boil the water.
The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands.
She heard the call of some unknown, strange bird in the boughs as she was led into the jungle.
We should have learned about ratlines long ago, from hard experience -- the Ho Chi Minh Trail was the biggest ratline of them all, a bustling ant trail through the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia swarming with men and women on foot, on bicycles, in battered Chinese-made trucks, delivering fresh troops and war supplies to the south. Nick Mills: Mixed Messages
In the Jungle there were other kitchens and restaurants and people were able to prepare their own food. Times, Sunday Times
There must have been hundreds more who had crawled away into the jungle to die. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
botflies," or fly larvae, that must be suffocated and squeezed out of the skin before they mature inside a person's skin, are common in the jungle. The Daily Illini - The Independent Student Newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
Supporters of this show even insist that being dumped in the Australian jungle is good for celebrities: the weak are culled but the strong are released into the wild, to appear on chat shows and open fêtes.
Tourists visit Mayan ruins, take jungle safaris, and explore a long barrier reef.
This outback area is a far cry from the city's concrete jungle.
Not nearly enough for a walk in the jungles of Vietnam, but he figured it was plenty for the dark environs of a city. WITHOUT REMORSE
We should recognise it as the noble jungle fowl that, in the deepest recesses of its genetic code, it still is. Times, Sunday Times
Yet as we proceed in Afghanistan, even the most well considered of PowerPoint policy recommendations read like parodies of the social-scientist-in-uniform pitches that cloyed in the Vietnam jungles. Magic and Mayhem
Small jungle cats, tiny mouse deer, porcupines and pythons all make the wilderness their home.
The backdrop of bright, white crisp snow could not have been more of a contrast to the jungle setting in which Ally Taylor was kept captive by Colombian guerillas.
There was speculation that the captives would be picked up by helicopter from a prearranged spot in the jungle.
After a spine-crushing three hour journey from the small city of Coca in an open-air ranchero, a motorized canoe transported us 150 miles from civilization into the remotest bowels of the jungle. Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe
One dusty street has all the town's shops, with a small grid of deteriorating roads and tumbledown shacks huddling between the sea and the low, brushy jungle that somehow looks poised to devour the suburbs.
I believe this to be the true king of the jungle and not that overrated pretender, the lion.
The political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real South-East Asian locations, and the studio jungle looks unconvincing.
Do we want to become a jungle with people relieving themselves on the street?
They are on the Top 5 list of most venomous spiders along with the redback spider and the tree-dwellling funnel-web spider, both from Australia, and the Brazilian wandering spider found on jungle floors. Chron.com Chronicle
The explorers had to rough it when they got into the jungle.
You can hear the squish of the uniforms as the Marines walk through the jungles.
The Manu Biosphere is 7,700 square miles of cloud forest between Peru and Brazil - book your ecolodge for the full Amazonian jungle experience.
Two individuals were included from broiler sire line B, brown-egg-layer line D, broiler dam line D, Icelandic landrace, and captive red jungle fowl G. g. gallus.
They found the jungle virtually impenetrable.
The mainland has diminished to a thin line of green and purple trees, and, closer by, neighbouring islands are underscored by slithers of sand and backed by dense jungle.
In contrast to the suggestion of its title, ‘Chiaro’ changes the atmosphere to something twilit, as though the listener had strayed from sunlit beaches into a shadowy jungle full of hidden creatures.
The expedition through the jungle was fraught with difficulty and danger.
they stopped at an open space in the jungle
I hoped this would put an end to the stories that Britain's countryside is jammed full of jungle animals. The Sun
The vastness of the sky, the freshness of the wind, the unending motion of the sea. .. a million worlds away from concrete jungles and high-tech lifestyles.
The primogenitor of countless domesticated breeds is the Red Junglefowl of southern Asia.
Go river rafting through the French mountains or quad bike through the jungle. The Sun
To me the plant called to mind a giant jungle of a cheese plant in the corner, with huge luxuriant leaves on tangly, ropey stems, streaming out of a giant clay pot and taking over half of the room all the way up to the ceiling.
Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass.
The tribeswoman lives in a bamboo hut deep in a northern Thailand jungle.
Part trip hop, jungle and ambient, they've added a middle eastern take to their voyage, filling out lush soundscapes with talking drums, violins and the occasional accordion to spice a generous mix of all things mellow.
It's a jungle out there -- and it's getting more junglelike every day. Predators On The Prowl
We hope for a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.
It came from one direction and all directions; something was happening back in the moveless, dripping jungle under the lazily eddying blanket of fog. "The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 1
Special forces commandos melted into the jungle around the planned rendezvous. Times, Sunday Times
The mountain area is covered entirely in dense jungle.
Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land.
Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children. Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat
there was a single banana tree in the jungle.
It's a self-test jungle out there. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to moon bears, tigers live in this mountain jungle, as do small, short-haired, tree-climbing sun bears, the strange, fanged barking deer called muntjacs, and civets, wild boars, and cobras.
One of the characteristics of Salkantay trek is that travellers hike through the high Jungle of Cusco since the third day and arrive walking to Aguas Calientes. Four Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The first Europeans to spy its jagged, jungle-clad peaks and encircling reef were the mutineers of HMS Bounty.
But the live show still holds out the promise of hearing songs such as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Patience" and "Paradise City," brayed by the sinuous star who made them anthems. Welcome Back To the Jungle
The hike back was through the first real jungle I had ever been in.
The Yanomami people live in the South American jungle.
The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt. Isabelle
It held more mystery than even the darkest jungle.
But how would hosts Ant and Dec cope if they were dumped in the jungle? The Sun
Most of my hedges are jungles of the various trees, draped with blackberry, dog-rose, bryony, honeysuckle and wild hop, all scrambling about the branches. Wildwood
The banana plant is actually a giant weed of the tropical jungle that grows with incredible speed.
Your little company may be nothing but a flea in a corporate elephant's patch of jungle but just how much might the elephant be willing to pay to be rid of you, or to buy you out?
At the fishing village of Barra del Tordo, most of the deep jungle that once lined the Carrizales River is gone.
After the fighting ended, he hid in the jungle for two years before he was coaxed into surrendering.
The animated film "Jungle Book" grossed $7.7 million.
A helicopter landed in a clearing in the dense jungle.
I keep hunting through the mechanical jungle, looking for the human beings that lurk there. Times, Sunday Times
As the city's parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.
Today's stars veer between garage and house, grime and jungle. The Sun
We should recognise it as the noble jungle fowl that, in the deepest recesses of its genetic code, it still is. Times, Sunday Times
The army snaked through the jungle
The feat of getting so many men across the forbidden mountain range which separates the west coast of Chile from the jungle on the east was reminiscent of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.
Even when he consorted with jail-birds in jungle camps, and listened to their codes of conduct and measurements of life, he was not affected. CHAPTER V
The occasion was urgent, and the track through the jungle, scarcely noticeable in broad daylight, was absolutely undiscernible in the dark. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon’s throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah. Gone with the Wind
The park has three distinct sections of lush green jungle and African-style veldt that look like they came straight out of a National Geographic documentary.

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