How to use trunk in a sentence

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• The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.From the entry tree
• The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.From the entry pinnate
• The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.From the entry tag
• After class, Nick changed into his swimming trunks and dived into the pool.From the entry swimming trunks
• His bathing trunks were ruined and he didn't have another pair.From the entry bathing trunks
• The vine begirdled the tree, wrapping around its trunk as though trying to hug it.From the entry begirdle
• The upper part of the trunk of a palm tree is induviate.From the entry induviate
• Please put your baggage in the trunk.From the entry baggage
• Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!From the entry slam
• I couldn't wrestle the trunk down the hall.From the entry wrestle
• The trunk was overladen with clothes.From the entry overladen
• 'Is a plant', 'has a trunk', 'has leaves' are intensions of the concept tree. Its extension is the set of all trees existing in the real world.From the entry intension
• Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in Rail, number 942, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry hitherto
• They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside.2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3. From the entry ripple
• Arnold grabbed his trunk briefs, undershirt, and socks and looked him over again.2017, Milton Stern, Working Boys, A Midnight Murder Mystery, Part II, page 93. From the entry trunk briefs
• A quicker cooling of the acra compared to head or trunk also occurs.2014 July 29, Sandra Ückert, Cold Application in Training & Competition: The Influence of Temperature on Your Athletic Performance, Meyer…. From the entry acra
• The ventral nerve mass, the trunk innervations and parapodial nerves are visible.2014, J. Wolfgang Wägele, Thomas Bartolomaeus, Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, →ISBN. From the entry parapodial
• The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture.2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase. From the entry pale
• The Model S, showing off both its traditional trunk and its surprising "frunk."2013 (summer), Standard, issue 17, page 50. From the entry frunk
• Considered as a model of Western knowledge, the trunk of this arborescent structure represents human rationality.2012, B[radley] H[udson] McLean, Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry arborescent
• This is because the trunk can “barber chair” before it falls.2012, Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick, The Backyard Lumberjack, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry barber chair
• The coeliac ganglia lie on each side of the coeliac trunk.2010, Robert H. Whitaker, Neil R. Borley, Instant Anatomy, page 85. From the entry coeliac
• Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days.2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, page 180. From the entry bluebeat
• Swimming trunks, that’s all he had on; blue ones, boxer-short style, with an orange “F” on them.2010, Rick Wilber, Rum Point: A Baseball Novel, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry boxer-short
• That way, a taxidriver cannot hold the traveler's luggage hostage in the trunk for more money.2009, Brian R. Johnson, Brian Kingshott, Safe Overseas Travel: Maximizing Enjoyment by Minimizing Risk. From the entry hold hostage
• Only the first row of notes in the trunk box were real.2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN. From the entry 419er
• You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away?2008 April 24, neilc...@yahoo.com, “ARRMO FEST”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet). From the entry blast
• Using a screwdriver from the trunk of the Camaro, he opened the housing.2008, T. Jefferson Parker, L.A. Outlaws: A Novel, New York: Dutton, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry unseat
• Then they began to wallow, swatting at each other with their wet-noodle trunks.2008, Caitlin O'Connell, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, →ISBN. From the entry wet-noodle
• A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in The New York Times. From the entry awkwardly
• Coconut palms with white-painted trunks surround the lagoon, which is lit by flaming torches at night.2005, Lee Mylne, “Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef”, in Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, edited by Marie Morris, Frommer’s Australia 2005…. From the entry torch
• Then, not far on, a black blaze on a cider gum trunk.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 14. From the entry cider gum
• All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, page 172. From the entry disused
• They have short trunk, short legs and long arms; Steatopygea is occasionally present in women.1997, Ram Nath Sharma, Rajendra K. Sharma, Anthropology, page 101. From the entry Negrillo
• The trunk was lined with cedar, yet everything smelled zooish, the very opposite of Hygeia.1995, Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy, page 574. From the entry zooish
• He fondled her breast and ran his right hand along her entire trunk terminating at her buttocks.1991, Joe Butias, A Bachelors' Night Entertainment - Page 22. From the entry foresex
• Her head is reborn as Shiva on Mount Kailash, and her trunk as Gaura Devi in Rishasau.1991, William S. Sax, Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL…. From the entry Kailash

Meaning of trunk

1. noun The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
2. noun The torso; especially, the human torso.
3. noun The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

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Questions about trunk in a sentence

How do you use trunk in a sentence?

Trunk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.”

What is a short sentence with trunk?

“The trunk was overladen with clothes.”

What does trunk mean?

Trunk means the usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.