Our regiment now controlled the Cagayan Valley, from Tuguegarao in the north to Balete Pass in the south, and from Kiangan in the west to Palanan and Casiguran ports on the east coast.
Traveling at night, because the Japanese occupied the roads during the day, we were able to reach a small detachment of soldiers guarding Balete Pass.
The nearest road leading to Bataan that still might be open was through Balete Pass, fifty miles to the southeast.
One battalion pursued the Japs to Balete Pass, where they set up defense positions.
We decided to push on to Balete Pass, where we located a quaint hotel nestled in the mountains.
Thousands of Japs were massed at Balete Pass and moving north into the Cagayan Valley.
I'll bring you all your money, which I saved and buried at the foot of the balete in the mysterious tomb of your grandfather.
Some threw the jewels into the river and burned the clothes, and from the time that the corpse was buried at the foot of the balete itself, no one willingly ventured near the spot.
Tracing this, they found the decaying corpse of the old Spaniard hanging from the branch of a balete tree.
He then walked around it and noticed that a branch of the fateful balete was crossed with one from another tree.
They also, like the old heathen Tagals, consider rocks, caves, or balete trees, as residences of spirits.
It has happened that they have begged incense from the cura on various pretexts in order to go immediately and burn it under a balete tree.
Still there to this day lies the Balete tree, But no more do the people that pass say "Tabi.
Then a roar shook the forest and chilled all their hearts, And the awful Balete split into two parts; Then they saw in the center, as each big half fell, Their darling Juanita all smiling and well.
Glossary balete tree = a type of tree, Ficus indica, often believed to be the home of evil and vengeful spirits.
At last when they thought that the search brought no good, One man found Juanita's neat bundle of wood; He called the good news, and as more came to see, Loud knocking was heard in the Balete tree.
Now once there lived in Santa Cruz town A little girl known as Juanita Calaon; She was gentle and sweet and as good as could be, And she always bowed low to the Balete tree.
Then many were frightened, but many were brave, And wondered by what means the girl they could save; For they knew that it must be Juanita who knocked, And that inside the Balete tree she was locked.
He seized poor Juanita, and quick as could be He shut her inside of the Balete tree.
His haunt is said to be sometimes the balete tree, as the enormous footprints occasionally seen in its vicinity testify.
Here he builds a house, or more often makes his domicile in a balete tree.
Pat caught him by the arm and drew him back into the semi-shelter of the "legs" of the balete tree.
Even in his haste, in the uncomfortable day, the boy stopped to gaze in wonder at the wonderful balete tree, which is a representative of the fig family.
The boys crouched in the open space between the "legs" of a balete tree and waited for some possible explanation of the strange thing that had taken place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
