virgin forest
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Exhausted, with dark smudges across flushed cheeks, they watched Europe’s most destructive blaze in recent history advance through virgin forest across the hill.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Much of that was virgin forest, cut down by loggers and farmers who came after the road was built.
From BBC ● May 18, 2022
At current rates, the report added, the entire forest in Biolequin, a major reservoir of virgin forest, could “disappear in less than a decade.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2019
Reaching up and pushing aside the last, dark green boughs, the 50-year-old finally pops his head through the emerald gloom of the virgin forest into the golden September sun of the Caucasus Mountains.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 21, 2017
After that they had to make their way through the virgin forest as best they might.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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