rain forest
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024
Old growth forests are certainly critically important keepers of habitats, but older forests, including rainforests like the Amazonian rain forest, are valuable primarily as carbon storage forests, not carbon sequestering forests.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023
Some of those ancestors wandered toward the rain forest and present-day Congo and eventually gave rise to the okapi.
From Scientific American • Feb. 19, 2023
The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
