concrete jungle

noun

: a modern city or urban area filled with large buildings and regarded especially as a harshly competitive, unwelcoming, or dangerous place

Examples of concrete jungle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nestled just to the southwest of downtown Dallas, Oak Cliff Nature Preserve is a 121-acre sanctuary with thick, overgrown vegetation and dirt paths to remind you that there is still plenty of natural beauty in this overgrown concrete jungle. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

After taking another drag and passing the blunt off to someone’s grandma, Rocky transports back to the Big Apple’s concrete jungle. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2026

Residents crave open space in a neighborhood that’s become Miami’s concrete jungle. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

Elsewhere in the concrete jungle, Wood and his team also had to build and stylize another part of New York through Yelena’s (Florence Pugh) elaborate bathhouse, built from scratch and based on spaces Wood discovered while scouting the city. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for concrete jungle

• antifungal
• fungal