JUNGLE in a Sentence

Learn JUNGLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

33 example sentences for JUNGLE, such as:

1. The tiger prowled through the jungle.
2. We had to hack our way through the jungle.
3. You need to be tough to survive in the jungle.
4. The lion is often called the king of the jungle.
5. The Yanomami people live in the South American jungle.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUNGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jungle
 n.  land densely overgrown with tropical trees and plants
Classic Sentence:
1  She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The dining-room beyond was a jungle of stained table-cloths and catsup bottles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  A reed hut on fantastic piles above the mud of a jungle river.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  But it sounded really more like a Central African jungle than an English village.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  But it took some getting at, the core of the physical jungle, the last and deepest recess of organic shame.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  It is our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
10  A long decaying building on the summit was half buried in the high grass; the large holes in the peaked roof gaped black from afar; the jungle and the woods made a background.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
11  He has had dreadful strokes of the sun, no doubt, and jungle fevers and agues, and every kind of thing you can mention.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
12  Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  Never, not all her life, would she behold jungles and the tombs of kings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The Yanomami people live in the South American jungle.
2  The mountain area is covered entirely in dense jungle.
3  You need to be tough to survive in the jungle.
4  Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle, just turn slowly, walk away.
5  We had to hack our way through the jungle.
6  We hope for a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.
7  Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.
8  You've got to be determined in this life - it's a jungle out there, kid.
9  We landed at a tiny airstrip in the middle of the jungle.
10  Ankor Wat is part of a vast network of around a hundred ancient temples hidden deep in the Cambodian jungle.
11  The lion is often called the king of the jungle.
12  These criminal gangs only recognize the law of the jungle.
13  Social security law and procedure remain a jungle of complex rules.
14  We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle.
15  The tiger prowled through the jungle.