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Example sentences for "trunk"

Lexicographically close words:
truncus; trundle; trundled; trundles; trundling; trunke; trunked; trunkful; trunkless; trunks
  1. The bandits then seized on the traitor and dragged him to a very large chestnut tree, the trunk of which was hollow, and into which a man could enter through an aperture which was almost on a level with the ground.

  2. I longed to run forth and stop him, but my courage was not prompt enough, and I shamefully shrank away behind the trunk of the carob-tree.

  3. All I could do, therefore, was to creep as far as the trunk of the hawthorn-tree, and thence observe that my enemy did not return by the way he had come, but hastened down the dusky valley.

  4. When the trunk was in Maria's old room, and Maria had smoothed her hair and washed her face and hands, she and Evelyn sat down in the parlor and waited.

  5. Take the trunk up the stairs, to the room at the left," said Harry Edgham, "and go as still as you can.

  6. It was the only trunk she had ever owned.

  7. The man obeyed, shouldering the little trunk with an awed look.

  8. Miss Lyndesay gave the girls a trunk key and sent them off to do their garret exploring by themselves, giving them permission to do whatever they liked with anything they might find.

  9. Mrs. Eldred came in as Hannah flung the lid of the trunk back.

  10. Miss Lyndesay seconded the motion, and, taking candles, the three mounted into the garret, sought out the old trunk and brought the beautiful doll down stairs.

  11. There is a trunk that I have only peeped into.

  12. Hannah helped her remove her thick jacket, tucked it and her hat away in the closet, piled up the bags and asked for the trunk key.

  13. And I have two or three books in my trunk which I would gladly give, O, gladly.

  14. Well, I had cookies and mince pie to take last year, after my trunk was packed.

  15. Sitting up, Elsmere watched the baggage-man get a tin trunk and a canvas telescope ready for shipping.

  16. Afterwards I saw from the window Mr. Scott, accompanied by Mr. Johnson, lugging my carpet-bag in the same direction my trunk had gone.

  17. Looking out from the prison window, I saw my trunk in the hands of Messrs.

  18. The only other printed or written things in the trunk were some business cards of a firm in Raleigh--not incendiary.

  19. One accident only had happened: we lost at Washington a trunk containing most of our valuable clothing.

  20. When a square timber was required, one man cut notches three feet apart down the sides of a prostrate trunk and split off the slabs.

  21. My trunk is still at the station," he said.

  22. Certain of not being disturbed, at least for some hours, the Count opened the trunk brought in by the two soldiers, in order to convince himself whether the governor had told him the truth, and the contents were really intact.

  23. So soon as the Count was certain that the Major had told him the truth, he carefully locked the trunk again, hung the key round his neck by a steel chain, and sat down quietly in the chimney corner.

  24. A small table of rock which projected over the precipice on one side of the stream, and was drenched by the spray of the fall, sustained a huge trunk of a tree which must have been deposited there by some heavy freshet.

  25. This mode of walking the tree is only practicable where the trunk declines considerably from the perpendicular.

  26. Twenty-four hours later, that trunk among a number of others was jogging along in a baggage car on its way to New York.

  27. With the helpless feeling that he was in the hands of two madmen, Van Harlem stood by while trunk after trunk was overhauled, and the trousseau scattered all over the room.

  28. But when she had stuffed it in, still wrapped in the petticoat, not satisfied as to its secrecy, she opened an empty trunk and lifted the box into that.

  29. Opening the door into a little trunk room at the end of the hall, she dragged her burden inside.

  30. The trunk of the tree had been launched overhead, and crashed into the very midst of us.

  31. Here in a dark and lonely corner, with a pixie ring before it, she came to a narrow door, very brown and solid, looking like a trunk of wood at a little distance.

  32. Fortunately for the two boys, there was an old trunk in the cabin, and also a small wooden box which could be made to hold clothing, and these they packed with such effects as they intended to take along.

  33. Then Earl and Randy sharpened up several wedges and tried their hands at splitting up the trunk into a suitable size for whipsawing.

  34. I carry from its source, That in this trunk inhabits.

  35. Of the Calfucci still the branchy trunk Was in its strength: and to the curule chairs Sizii and Arigucci yet were drawn.

  36. As I saw her coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree.

  37. My fears were not without cause, for soon one of the largest of the elephants put his trunk round the foot of the tree, plucked it up, and threw it on the ground.

  38. The great uplifted trunk gave one whirl in the air and descended with force enough to slay an ox.

  39. But the Wasp dragged the Cicada up the trunk of another tree, then took another long sloping flight as before.

  40. Its trunk is smooth, greenish, or whitish, with black knots of bark like "c".

  41. It was fourteen years old, and across the stump it showed one ring of wood for each year of growth, and a circle of branches on the trunk for each year.

  42. So the track of the Brownie up the trunk became one long staircase of toadstool steps, some close, some far apart, but each showing where the Brownie had rested.

  43. Its first year, judging by the bottom section of the trunk (No.

  44. Notice that between the branches, the trunk did not taper; it was an even cylinder, but got suddenly smaller at each knot by the same amount of wood as was needed by those branches for their wood.

  45. Some are bent double, with their heads nearly touching the earth; and among other fantastic forms it is not unusual to see the trunk of some aged warrior twisted round and round, its outer surface resembling the strands of a rope.

  46. They all went to the door, and there they found a carriage waiting, with Mr. and Mrs. Parkman's trunk upon the top of it.

  47. He was the more convinced of the correctness of this from the fact that the word for trunk or box, in French, is coffre.

  48. So he concluded it must mean a trunk and saddle makery.

  49. After seeing the trunk put on board they went on board themselves.

  50. In three or four years after planting cut off the trunk about as high as a man's waist or shoulder and put in the graft from the best variety available.

  51. The trunk of the largest one on the right is 10 feet in circumference, and is probably the largest English walnut tree in Oregon.

  52. I be urned in the trunk of some green tree, and even in death have the vital sap circulating round me, giving of my dead body to the living foliage that shaded my peaceful tomb.

  53. The train, pausing only long enough to disgorge from the baggage-car a trunk or two and from the day-coaches a thin trickle of passengers, flung on into the wilderness, cracked bell clanking somewhat disdainfully.

  54. She stood with one hand against the trunk of a tree, on the edge of a small clearing wherein the axes of the local lumbermen had but lately been busy.

  55. Rutton had crossed to and was bending over a small leather trunk that stood in one corner of the room.

  56. The servant brought from Rutton's leather trunk a battered black-japanned tin box, which, upon exploration, proved to contain little that might not have been anticipated.

  57. I went with him across the road, and leaned against the fallen trunk of a tree, which was just visible in the darkness.

  58. At times the flames blazed up, disclosing trunk and branches; again they waned, and only a shadowy mass filled the middle space.

  59. On the trunk of this giant hemlock, where it could be seen by all who came to the spring, was a white sign that read: Everybody loses when timber burns.

  60. Well up its trunk a limb had broken or rotted away, and the resulting decay of the stub had made a hole in the tree itself.

  61. Here and there a blackened tree thrust its bare trunk upward, limbless, its top gone, a ragged, spectral, pitiful remnant of what had been a beautiful tree.

  62. Close by the trail lay the rotting trunk of a large tree that had fallen years before.

  63. He tied the end of the rope about the trunk of the tree in which Lew and the bear rested.

  64. But as I remember it, what I read said that the beaver gnaws out parallel rings around the trunk and wrenches out the wood between.

  65. What Charley had mistaken for a tree trunk was his chum's prostrate form.

  66. The aerial reached almost from trunk to trunk, and the wires were completely hidden by the branches that stood out all about them.

  67. She grasped the trunk of the tree with her paws to avoid falling, and that gave Charley an opportunity to tighten and secure his rope.

  68. All the while he was urging on the dog, which now began to jump up against the trunk of the tree.

  69. If the patient be a man we let his trunk be disrobed, giving free access to the back, chest and abdomen.

  70. Treat the trunk some five to eight minutes.

  71. In these cases, I not unfrequently treat with a light B D current a full hour, unless perspiration start freely in shorter time, working over the trunk and limbs generally.

  72. A little farther on, the briony, with its brilliant berries, will festoon the grey trunk of its cherishing oak with a glory, in autumn, that cannot but charm the eye.

  73. You could not open your trunk and put it in; and if you did, I do not think it would travel well with your shirts, &c.

  74. Each year, also from the point where the trunk ended the year before, there starts out a whorl of little branches, a half dozen or so of them, some of which will by and by become the main limbs.

  75. Besides, when a tree happens to get uprooted, and yet lives, the new part of the trunk which grows after the accident, does not continue the direction of the old fallen portion, but turns and grows straight up.

  76. L How The Elephant Got His Trunk According to the Just So Stories, in the high and far off times, before any elephant ever had any trunk, there was a certain Elephant’s Child who was afflicted with an insatiable curiosity.

  77. So the tree gets a trunk in spite of the cow.

  78. So a plant knows in a way, up from down, as indeed it must, else a tree would not be able to send a tall trunk straight up into the air.

  79. The reason is that by turning away from the light, they turn back toward the rock or tree trunk or wall or trellis which gives them support.

  80. Cut the entire animal in halves as one chops thru the trunk of a growing tree, and the root end grows a new head, and the head end grows a new; root, and there are two new hydras in place of the one old one.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trunk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anatomy; axis; baggage; balustrade; banister; barrel; base; beak; bill; body; bole; bones; branch; bugle; cable; cane; carcass; case; cask; chest; clay; clod; colonnade; column; dado; die; drum; elevated; embankment; feeder; figure; flesh; form; frame; hulk; junction; line; luggage; monorail; muffle; muzzle; nose; nostril; nozzle; pedestal; pedicel; person; physique; pier; pilaster; pile; pillar; pipe; plinth; pole; post; proboscis; rail; railroad; railway; reed; roadbed; roadway; roll; roller; rostrum; rouleau; shaft; sidetrack; siding; snout; spear; spire; staff; stalk; stanchion; stand; standard; stem; stock; subway; switchback; terminal; terminus; torso; track; tram; trestle; trunk; tube; turnout; underground; upright


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    trunk diameter; trunk service