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Use "kampongs" in a sentence
"Passing through some of the tiny kampongs (villages), where every home is covered by a tin roof in varying degrees of rust, one wonders how much life has changed here over the decades."
"As Singapore developed during the 1960s, '70s and' 80s, meandering country roads gave way to freeways, plantations were cleared and high-rise public housing replaced the kampongs, or villages, that once dotted the island."
"So in the neighborhood of Malacca these kampongs are scattered through the perpetual twilight of the forest."