trunk
Example Sentences
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Its trunk is jammed with short sticks, forming a makeshift ladder that she still climbs each summer to raid beehives.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
But he showed a talent for selling as a teenager when he hawked bottles of aftershave lotion out of the trunk of his Buick.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
The company, which will eventually invest in stores again, is hosting trunk shows —where designers bring their collections to particular stores—and where the seamstresses will work with customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century -- shifted from attic to barn to garage as it was handed down through the generations.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Once she had finished drinking, she began sloshing her trunk about, and splashing me with icy water, which I did not appreciate at all.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing trunk
Stump Speech: Tree Terminology
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"The Giving Tree"
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