trunk
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I had to use the trunk opener inside the glove compartment, which, of course, had been jimmied open, and I kept closed with duct tape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The back windshield and trunk are also crushed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Brown, from Clacton, Essex, was fatally thrown from his speedboat boat on the River Thames, when it hit a submerged tree trunk, in December 2015.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Their analysis showed that the fossils consisted of an anterior trunk vertebra, a mid trunk vertebra, and a sacro-caudal vertebra.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Then I climbed up into the tree’s branches, and Rufus settled in down at the bottom of the trunk.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Through the trunks, we get the occasional glimpse of the razed farmland which tightly fences this pocket of protected woodland.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Artisans scale the trunks with ropes and spikes to reach the greenish base of each frond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
These rings are somewhat similar to the annual rings found in tree trunks.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
Fragments of bags, clothes, and a melted shoe lie half-buried in the charred earth at the site, alongside dead trees with burned trunks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
A row of large ice chests lined one wall, and a couple of tin trunks the other, one with two flashlights on top, and discarded cell batteries littered around them.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing trunk
Stump Speech: Tree Terminology
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