jungly

Example Sentences

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Auckland, a city of 1.7 million people, sprawls across dozens of volcanoes and three harbors, with many people living close to beaches or on the edge of its jungly native wilderness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

The road there runs through the jungly Iguape River valley, past banana plantations, an Apostolic church named the Last Call, and small farmhouses with red-tiled roofs.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 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

She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver