Sentence examples for patch of jungle from inspiring English sources

Map in hand, he walked through a patch of jungle that had been harvested last year.

They were not great talkers, there in their patch of jungle loud with silence and insect noises.

CARSTAIRS: I say, old man, did you notice something extraordinary about that patch of jungle clearing where I shot the python at tea-time?

Triet's 1,500-man regiment is in temporary occupation of a formidable and formidably named patch of jungle northwest of Saigon, the "Long Nguyen Secret Zone".

Back to normal Heavy baggage Reprints Related items Sri Lanka: Chronicle of a death foretoldJan 15th 2009They are now trapped in a small and shrinking patch of jungle as the war grinds on to its bitter end.

In contrast, lowland agriculture was frequently of the shifting variety; a patch of jungle was first selected, felled and burned toward the end of the dry season, and then planted with a digging stick in time for the first rains.

The Art Deco railway station is the terminus for three daily air-conditioned trains to Kuala Lumpur, 248 miles north along the narrow metre-gauge tracks, through palm oil plantations and patches of jungle.

Six young Finnish men stepped out and followed their guide through a patch of temperate jungle that once was an urban courtyard.

The southeastern section of Johannesburg's city centre is a shabby patch of concrete jungle, where a flyover scythes through a grimy jumble of warehouses and red-brick blocks, their facades shadowed by fire escapes, security bars and hoardings.

The park is a 360-square-mile patch of grasslands and jungle near the border with India, at the upper edge of the great Ganges plain.

Sri Lankan troops, pressing the attack over the past several months, have backed the rebel fighters into a shrinking patch of lagoons, coconut groves, jungle and beachfront along the country's northeastern coast.