Sentence examples for jungle telegraph from inspiring English sources
noun
A system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
(I'd heard my mother talk like this with Auntie Jean, Frank's wife, and had felt betrayed, because usually we made fun of Jean. It was our joke that she knew the gossip before it even happened; "jungle telegraph," Mum called it).
Telegraph wires become as fanciful as jungle creepers.
The electric companies were told to remove, repair and upgrade the jungle of overhead wires, a deadly mélange of telegraph, telephone, burglar alarm and electric light wires.
The Telegraph reports that archaeologists in Argentina were searching through ruins in the jungle when they began to discover a bunch of large stone structures riddled with German coins, German porcelain, and swastikas on the walls.
The Telegraph reports that Spike Jonze and Maurice Sendak wrangled over whether to turn Max's bedroom into a jungle in the adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are".
Welfare department official Michael Herzig told The Telegraph "We want to regulate prostitution because until now it was the law of the jungle".
The Telegraph of London reported that a British company is selling a letter in which Kipling writes that "it is extremely possible that I have helped myself promiscuously" from other sources in writing "The Law of the Jungle," an idea that he introduced in "The Jungle Book" and later codified in a poem.
Daily Telegraph, March 8th.
