Example Sentences

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His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024

Every rain forest we bulldoze for cattle and every open pit lithium mine we carve out to power our Teslas is hardly different than a Cordyceps fungus turning its host into a zombie.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Rather it’s about the scale of human involvement in the Amazon rain forest.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023

You can score a fee-free spot in old-growth rain forest at Campbell Tree Grove near Quinault, scheduled to reopen May 5, where there are bathrooms but no potable water.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Whatever the original host of the virus, it seems that a blood-to-blood contact in the rain forest enabled the virus to move into the human world.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston