jungle
Example Sentences
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Some soldiers jumped from the plane as it went down in the country’s southern jungle after takeoff, officials said.
The Hercules aircraft went down shortly after departure from Puerto Leguizamo, near the southern border with Ecuador, strewing burning wreckage on the jungle floor.
From Barron's
A large military transport plane carrying Colombian troops crashed Monday in a forested part of the country’s southern jungles, officials said.
That leads to the breakdown of civilization, a state where only the law of the jungle remains.”
Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle.
From Los Angeles Times
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