7 sentences with 'bamboo'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bamboo and other words derived from it.
• « Jampa clutched his bamboo rucksack tightly, where he carried a collection of ancient writings. -They would be desecrated if the Chinese touched them," he said. I must get them out of here. »
• « Standing five metres high and eighteen metres in diameter, the Takamatsuzuka mound is located in a bamboo forest near the village of Asuka, south of Nara in central Japan. This Japanese area has ancient memories: it was an imperial residence between 600 and 700. »
• « "It's easy to save the panda from extinction," says George Schaller, a world-renowned zoologist and panda expert who works for the Zoological Society of New York. "All it needs is bamboo and peace. »
• « Logging, mining and road construction are also destroying what is left of the uplands where bamboo, the panda's main food source, grows. »
• « A peculiar feature of bamboo is that entire forests of the plant flower at the same time and die off quickly. These blooms and mass die-offs occur at unpredictable intervals, and up to 100 years may pass between them. »
• « Pearse built the plane in a workshop on his farm, out of bamboo wire and canvas. When he tested the plane on the 31st of March 1903, it managed to fly several hundred metres before crashing into a hedge. The flight was hardly controlled, however. »