trunks

Example Sentences

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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

“Each time the museum records the humidity or hears the water inside the trunks we can talk about the heartbeat of a tree,” says Anadol, with obvious delight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

He dined with his fellow jurors including Demi Moore and Chloé Zhao among the decorations of cinema memorabilia, including the boxing trunks worn by Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"My legs, they just feel like trunks, tree trunks," he told the BBC.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Huge sections of trunks had fallen all around them: “I don’t know why we’d not been speared,” remembered Buzz.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone