Example sentences for: bamboo

How can you use “bamboo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In kampung workshops you can watch fantastic birds and butterflies being made of paper (and increasingly, nowadays, of plastic, too) drawn over strong, flexible bamboo frames.

  • Note the colorful stands of dried fish and fresh fish, colorful pickles, stout young bamboo shoots, chicken wings and breasts arranged in elaborate patterns, and a whole cornucopia of squid, mussels, oysters, and giant scallops.

  • Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.

  • The bulk of Malays in the country at large are humbler town- and village-dwelling people — tending goats and buffaloes, growing rice, and working in the coconut, rubber, timber, rattan, and bamboo industries.

  • In the southern regions where bamboo grows, cottage industries turn out bamboo tea boxes, fans, flutes, chopsticks, walking sticks, and furniture.


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