jungle fever
Example Sentences
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Welsh, a Purple Heart recipient, was wounded twice and survived both malaria and a jungle fever in three island campaigns.
From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2020
Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our friends, who were old residents, shook their heads knowingly, and prophesied sunstroke or jungle fever; but we went sight-seeing continually, filled our specimen baskets, and escaped both fever and sunstroke.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
If the conversation happens to turn on jungle fever, or any subject like that, down goes her thumb instantly, and she clasps her fist over it with a convulsive squeeze.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
