jungly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of jungly
Example Sentences
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Florida’s atmosphere was gushing in all over, swamping me with its jungly breath.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2020
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
Would you like to see a slideshow of American Samoa’s stunning natural beauty, all jagged, jungly mountains and quiet coves, and hear how environmental and cultural stewardship work hand in hand in the territory?
From Slate • Mar. 15, 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
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