Jungle, The
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Discovered by accident more than 50 years ago when Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras was drilling for oil, the pinkish-orange slab of potassium chloride stretches for some 250 miles deep beneath the jungle—the dried-up remnants of an ancient ocean.
“I wanted to focus in Season 3 on how in this world, where incessant greed is always fueled, it’s like a jungle — the strong eating the weak, where people climb higher by stepping on other people’s heads,” he told The Times’ Michael Ordoña last month.
From Los Angeles Times
“I wanted to focus in Season 3 on how in this world, where incessant greed is always fueled, it’s like a jungle — the strong eating the weak, where people climb higher by stepping on other people’s heads.”
From Los Angeles Times
From the first roar of applause from the audience, to the punch lines that claw into the flesh of gender stereotypes, to the pop-star outfits that remind us she’s a comedy queen of the jungle, the veteran headliner holds nothing back.
From Los Angeles Times
“So we thought, let’s explore it and the sliding scale of each person’s experience of getting to America. When he’s locked up, Mo overhears one of the other immigrants talking about his journey: ‘The mud slides, the snakes, the jungle, the cartel.
From Los Angeles Times
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