jungly

Example Sentences

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Guaidó grew up, with four siblings, in a suburb of La Guaira, a port town at the foot of the jungly mountains below Caracas.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

When I go “around the world” at River Caves, drifting through vintage footage of jungly verdure and hieroglyph-carved columns, stalagmites and stalactites pincushioning manmade vistas, I translate myself into that state of feeling.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

The yard, though small, around 600 square feet, is beautiful, green and cool and jungly, densely planted with lacy native ferns and heavy-headed crimson heliconia and fragrant with white flowers: gardenia, plumeria, ginger, night-blooming jasmine.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

Jibila is the traditional ruler — the paramount chief — of Penguia, a little domain of jungly hills and dusty villages 250 miles from the capital.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2014

She was standing bare-legged in the jungly weeds that grew up between our houses.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides